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EDITED BY
H. SYDNEY GRAZEBROOK, Esq.
LONDON :
MITCHELL AND HUGHES, 140 WARDOUR STREET, W.
1883.
Contents;.
PAGE
Introduction .......... vii
List of Pedigrees xix
What is to be performed by the Heralds at their going in
Visitation 1
Somerset's Warrant, directed to the Bailiff of the Hundred of
Cudleston, to summon the Esquires and Gentlemen
inhabiting within the said Hundred to appear before him in
order to the enregistering of their several arms and descents 2
Nomina Nobilium de Com' Stafford', 1583 3
Warrant of Summons against such as contemptuously refuse to
appear upon the former warrant, to make their further
appearance before the Earl Marshal 11
The manner of the Heralds' Proclamation for the disclaiming of
ignoble persons . . . . . . . . .12
Names of those who were disclaimed 14
Lay Subsidy Roll of the 18th of Elizabeth, a.d. 1576 ... 17
Names and Arms of Staffordshire Knights, temp. Edward I. . 20
Anna Nobilium de Com' Stafford' ex libro antiquo in Officio
Armorum 21
Arms of Staffordshire Families as represented in the gallery at
Theobald's 26
Seal of the Town of Stafford, and List of the " Companie and
Brotherhood," etc., of the said town 27
Seal of Lichfield, with similar List
Seal of Newcastle under Lyme, with similar List
The doubtful Arms of Staffordshire .
Pedigrees (in alphabetical order)
Notes on the Pedigree of De Wastineys
. 28
. . 28
. 29
33 to 155
. 156
Index 163
fintrotmrtton.
The Visitation contained in the following pages was made by-
Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, as deputy to his father-in-
law, William Flower, Norroy King of Arms.
Glover, who was made Somerset Herald in 1571, was born
at Ashford in Kent in 1543. Erdeswick styles him " the
only sufficient man in his time for armorye and descents in
this land," and Sir William Dugdale considered him " the best
Herald that did ever belong to the office." So high was his
reputation for professional skill and unwearied attention, that
the contemporary provincial Kings of Arms sent him on several
occasions to visit the counties in their marches ; and, besides
Staffordshire, he either visited or assisted in the Visitatioi] s of
the several counties of Chester, Derby, Durham, Lancaster,
Northumberland, and York. But his " Somer too soone set,"
for he died at the early age of forty-five in 1588.
The manuscript from which the Visitation here printed is
transcribed is a small folio in the William Salt Library, which
I have ventured to designate " The Stukeley MS."
It has a somewhat curious history. Inside the cover is
written in a large bold hand :
" Wm Stukeley.
This book I redeem'd
from a shop where
it was to be used
as waste paper,
1756,
and giveu to Eabdley Wilmot."
This is the handwriting of the learned antiquary Dr. Wil-
liam Stukeley, who was born in 1687, and died in 1765.
On the flyleaf is the autograph of " John Eardley Wilmot,
July 1811 ;" and inside the cover are pasted two armorial
bookplates of the Wilmot family, viz., " Sir John Eardley
b 2
Vlll INTRODUCTION.
Wilmot, Knt., London," and "JohnEardley Wilmot, Berkswell
Hall."
From the Wilmots the manuscript passed into the posses-
sion of William Hamper, F.S.A., from whose representatives
it was acquired by Mr. Salt.
By whom or when this MS. was written I am unable to say;
but a pencil note by Mr. Hamper, dated 1817, states that it
" evidently belonged to Win. Booth, of Witton, Esq. (the
friend of Dug-dale), from his notes in various parts of it."
This William Booth was an eminent barrister and a noted
antiquary. Dugdale, in his " Warwickshire," speaks of him as
" a gentleman so well affected to antiquities that by his
judicious observation of sundry notable things concerning this
part of the countie (which with much freenesse he hath im-
parted toward this present work) he deserves a better acknow-
ledgment from me than by a few words can be expressed."
Hamper (" Life of Dugdale," p. 1 25) states that he had retrieved
a few of Mr. Booth's collections (this very MS. being no doubt
one of the few), but that he had sought in vain for one of his
volumes, entitled " Descents of some gentlemen, and others
our neighbours, in and about Birmingham, set down by me
William Booth, of the Middle Temple, London, according to
the best intelligence I could have from old men, and from
notes and papers which concern others in our study, 1641."
Shaw, the historian of Staffordshire, found this MS. in the
possession of Erasmus Darwin of Derby in 1791, and from it
copied the (not quite accurate) pedigree of Stamford of Perry
Hall given in his second volume, p. 109.*
The original, or office copy, of Glover's Visitation of Staf-
fordshire had in Dugdale's time " long been purloined from
the office." But Noblef asserts that the true original, " written
by Somerset at the time of the Visitation, and signed by those
gentlemen who gave him information relative to their families,"
is in the library of Queen's College, Oxford.
Noble's work has been described by a competent judge as
" careless and inaccurate," and he himself as a " perpetual
* In the College of Arms is a quarto volume of pedigrees in the handwriting of
Nicholas Charles, Lancaster Herald, with additions by Mr. Booth. At the
beginning is written, " William Booth of Witton his book, 1660."
t " History of the College of Arms," Appendix, p. xxxi.
INTRODUCTION. ix
blunderer." But in this case he is generally allowed to be
correct.
The MS. to which he refers has every appearance of being
the original, and if the signatures* are not genuine they are
very clever imitations. With this volume the Stukeley MS.
agrees in almost every particular. But in order to perfect his
MS. Mr. Salt caused it to be carefully collated with the
reputed original; several missing pedigrees were supplied,f
and all variations noted. The gentleman employed in this
work was Mr. Thorpe, who speaks of the Queen's College MS.
as " Glover's original Visitation, in an old vellum binding."
Mr. Thorpe's notes upon this and several other manuscript
copies of the Visitation are in the William Salt Library, and
will be more particularly referred to in the sequel.
The first entire Visitation ever published was that of
Durham taken by Flower (assisted by Glover) in 1575. This was
issued in 1820, and is noticed in the " Gentleman's Magazine "
for that year (July, p. 45). The reviewer describes it as "a
perfect novelty in the annals of genealogical literature." For,
says he, " notwithstanding that several copies of these records
are extant both in our public and private libraries, they have
never yet been made accessible through the medium of the
press." This was followed in the same year by the Durham
Visitation of 1615 (of which only 50 copies were printed), and
by the Visitation of Middlesex in 1663. Since then a goodly
number of these records have been printed, the Harleian
Society alone having issued sixteen volumes, which, with two
exceptions, are, or purport to be, County Visitations. The
Surtees Society has issued Tonge's " Visitation of the Northern
Counties in 1530," and Dugdale's valuable "Visitation of
Yorkshire in 1665-6;" and the Chetham Society has placed in
the hands of its subscribers four Visitations of Lancashire. In
addition to these, we have the Visitations of Yorkshire in 1584
* I may here note that in the Stukeley MS. the signatures attached to the
several pedigrees do not in all cases agree with the original. For example, in the
former MS. the Endesore pedigree is signed " Richard Endesore," and that of
Wyrley "John Wyrley." Mr. Thorpe has noted all these variations, and the
several signatures here printed are as in the original.
f The pedigrees thus supplied are Ashenhurst, p. 35 ; Aston, p. 37 ; Biddulph,
p. 50 ; Giffard, p. 81 ; Hawkes, p. 97 ; Himiett, p. 99 ; Noel (" ex chartis "), p. 119 ;
K-udyerd, p. 126; and Somerford, p. 131.
X INTRODUCTION.
and 1612, edited by Mr. Joseph Foster; those of Suffolk in
1561, 1577, and 1612, edited by Mr. Metcalfe; and several
others.
It must, however, be admitted that some of these publica-
tions, though of considerable value as collections of county
pedigrees, are not precisely what they claim to be. They are
copied as a rule from some MS. in the Harleian Library,
which, though purporting to be a Visitation of a certain
county on such a date, often contains the result of two Visita-
tions combined and amalgamated ; and in some cases is so full
of additions and continuations by " other hands " that (to use
Wanley's words) " it is no easy matter to shew what belongs
to the Visitation and what not." On the other hand some of
these MSS. contain but a selection of the descents given in
the original, and these but mere abstracts or outlines. For
example, the Harl. MS. 6104 is stated to contain Dugdale's
Visitations of Staffordshire in 1663-4, and of Derbyshire in
16G2-3 ; but a comparison of the MS., with the original Visita-
tions remaining in the College of Arms, will reveal innumerable
errors both of omission and commission. And yet the latter
portion of this MS. has been recently published under the title
of "The Visitation of Derbyshire, taken in 1662, and reviewed
in 1663, by William Dugdale," which, with every respect for
its learned editor, I humbly conceive to be an unfortunate
mistake. Again, the "Visitation of Lancashire in 1664-5,"
published by the Chetham Society, contains towards the end
much matter quite foreign to the Visitation. The pedigree of
Trafford, for instance, ascends to Saxon times, whereas in
Dugdale's original it goes back only to the grandfather of the
then head of the family. This, as the editor of a recent pub-
lication of the Chetham Society points out, " cannot fail to be
very misleading," since it gives the sanction of the great
name of Dugdale to a composition in which he had no hand.
I ought perhaps to apologise for these critical remarks as
being somewhat out of place ; but I have made them, not for
the purpose of unkindly criticising these valuable publications,
but to draw attention to what I have already ventured to call
an unfortunate mistake, and more especially to explain why,
though there are numerous manuscripts in existence by the
INTRODUCTION. xi
aid of which many of the pedigrees contained in the following
pages might be amplified and extended, I have, in professing
to print Glover's Visitation, given nothing but that Visitation,
and have carefully avoided all " continuations " and " enlarge-
ments," except in a few instances (and they are all noted)
in which I have utilized the information supplied by the
"HathertonMS." •
By this name I refer to a transcript in the William Salt
Library (made by Mr. James Broughton) of a manuscript
belonging to Lord Hathertoh. This MS. purports to be a copy
of Glover's Visitation, but, like most of the so-called copies, it
contains much additional matter. It is identical — even in its
errors — with John Withie's " Copie of the Visitation book of
Staffordshire made in 1583 " (Harl. MS. 1077), which is dated
1621. Mr. Broughton wrote an account of this volume in the
"Gentleman's Magazine" for September 1829 (p. 212); and in
the Preface to his transcript he suggests that his original " is
in the handwriting of Sampson Erdeswick and his amanuensis
Wyrley." But he gives no reasons for this opinion, and it is
manifest from internal evidence that the MS. is of a more
recent date than he supposes.
In addition to the pedigrees, the Queen's College and
Stukeley MSS. contain numerous extracts from old deeds and
charters, and tricks of seals illustrating the descents and arms
of the families whose genealogies are recorded. These I have
omitted, and personally I regret the omission. But it has been
considered that these documents would be more fittingly in-
troduced into the Staffordshire Chartulary commenced in the
second volume of these Collections. I have also omitted some
preliminary matter, such as extracts from " Domesday," the
" Liber Rubeus," and sundry other documents which have been
already printed either by the Record Commissioners or by
Shaw, or have been made public in other ways. I should also
add that I am alone responsible for the alphabetical arrange-
ment of the pedigrees. They are not so arranged in my
original, but, besides the obvious utility of such an arrano-e-
ment for purposes of reference, there are several cogent reasons
(with which I need not trouble the reader) which have influ-
enced me. On pages xix and xx, however, will be found a
Xll INTRODUCTION.
list of the pedigrees in the order in which they are given in
the original.
An examination of the list of those summoned by Glover to
appear before him and record their descents (pp. 3-11) will
shew that 204 persons, or about 183 heads of families, were
ordered to put in an appearance. Of these forty-seven were
" Ignobiles,"* and were "disclaimed," together with some who
in the list are styled "gentlemen." Some were " extra com."
or "hors du pays," that is out of the jurisdiction of the
visiting Herald, or absent and unable to appear. Making due
allowance for all these, it follows that at least forty heads of
families made default, or, as Glover would term it, " disobedi-
ently and contemptuously " refused to appear before him ; and
these defaulters bore such well-known names as Congreve,
Wolseley, Sneyd, Fowke, Lane, Kynnersley, Draycott, Chet-
wynd, Stanley, Skeffington, Swynfen, etc., etc.f
With regard to this last-named family Edmund Lodge,
Lancaster Herald (writing in 1797), remarks how strange it is
that the Swynfens of Swynfen should have neglected to enter
their pedigree in any of the Staffordshire Visitations; and
tenfold more strange (he adds) that Dugdale, the son of
Elizabeth Swynfen, should have nowhere given any further
account of this his mother's family than the mere names of her
father and grandfather.
The late Mr. J. G. Nichols, in noticing the Lancashire
Visitations published by the Chetham Society, observes that
though it is a decided testimony to the antiquity of a family
that it should appear in a Visitation, yet its absence is not a
positive proof to the contrary. There is (he continues) an
amount of accident as to the admission or omission of families
* " Nohiles" says Coke, "sunt qui arma gentilicia anticessorum suorum proferre
possunt." By the word ignobilis the Heralds simply meant " not entitled to bear
arms," or, as it is sometimes expressed in English, " no gentleman."
t When Sir W. Dugdale visited Yorkshire in 1665-6 nearly one-third of the
whole number of gentry whom he called upon to appear before him with proofs of
their arms and pedigrees treated his summonses with neglect. In the Preface to
the printed Visitation a list of the persons who were contumacious is given, and in
this list may lie recognised a few of the well-known ancient gentry of the county,
besides many headjs of families whose descendants at this day would have rejoiced
had 1 bey then placed their pedigrees on record. There will also be found a long
list of defaulters at the same Herald's Visitation of Lancashire, 1664-5, in the
Introduction to the Chetham Society's printed copy.
INTRODUCTION. Xlll
in the Visitation books. Ormerod has remarked that the very
ancient family of Hulton of Hulton is entered only in the first
and last Visitations of Lancashire, and that of Gerard of Bryn
in none.
Some men, no doubt, were too proud to have their ancient
standing brought at all into question, or to allow that it
required recognition. Others were altogether careless and in-
different, and their tastes were for very different objects.
Others would be absent from home at the time of the Heralds'
circuit ; or, if summoned to attend them at a neighbouring
town, were possibly prevented by illness, or indisposed by
domestic sorrow and trouble.*
With regard to the degree of credit to be attached to
Visitation pedigrees, the same writer remarks that the Visita-
tions stand in the position of a witness at a trial, supposed to
be the person best informed upon the subject of inquiry, but
who may be mistaken from defect of memory or other accidental
circumstances. Still, he adds, such evidence, collected by
officers whose business it was to gather the truth, must at
least be important, if not always authoritative, and of course
all the more worthy of credit, so far as it is contemporaneous,
or nearly so, with the facts related. f
The principal authority possessed by the Visitation books is
undoubtedly the signature of the head of the family therein
recorded. But it is notorious that subscribers frequently
attached their names to most defective and imperfect genea-
logies— genealogies from which the maiden and even christian
names of their own wives and mothers are frequently absent ;
and though it must be admitted that the visiting Herald was
in a great measure dependent on the individual who furnished
the information, yet surely he should be held responsible for
these frequent omissions of names and facts which, it is
obvious, the person who entered the pedigree could easily
supply. One of many examples of this strange and unaccount-
able carelessness will be found in the descent of Arblaster in
this Visitation. Thomas Arblaster, who signed this pedigree,
must at least have known his mother's name ; and his father,
* " Herald and Genealogist, vii., p. 47.
f Ibid., ii., p. 185.
XIV INTRODUCTION.
who was then living, could assuredly, if asked, have supplied
further information. Of course this is by no means a solitary
instance of such a state of things, but I am not aware that
any satisfactory explanation of the astonishing ignorance
apparently displayed by the subscribers of Visitation pedigrees
— or the extreme carelessness of the Herald who recorded
them — has yet been offered. The Heralds were enjoined by
the Eoyal Commission under which all their Visitations were
made, not only to " peruse and take knowledge " of " all
manner of Arms," etc., but also to take " notes of the descents,
pedigrees, and marriages " of the " nobiles " in their provinces.
Yet it seems to me that as a rule they paid far more attention
to the former than the latter ; and provided that a right
to arms was satisfactorily established, they did not trouble
themselves to ascertain, even by oral testimony, the names or
parentage of females who, being neither heiresses nor co-
heiresses, were not in a position to transmit their armorial
insignia to posterity.
In the College of Arms there are three copies (so called)
of Glover's Visitation, which collectively contain a vast deal of
additional and indeed extraneous matter. These are Dugdale's
own copy, Vincent's, and a volume called E.D.N. 13.
The first-named manuscript is in Dugdale's own hand-
writing. I here copy its instructive titlepage: "A Copye of
the Visitation of Staffordshire made by William Flower, Norroy
King of Armes, in A0 mdlxxxiii (the Originall having been
long since purloyned* out of this Office) : which Copye was
taken from a Transcript thereof sometimes belonging to
Edward Gwynn, late of FurnivalPs Inne, in Com' MiddP (but
now in the Library of William Pierpoint, of Thoresby, in
Com' ISTott' Esq1"), by William Dugdale, Esq1', Norroy King of
Armes, and given unto this Society vj° Maij, mdclxviii. In
which transcript, though there be divers errors and mistakes ;
yet considering that the Originall is thus lost, it was thought
better thus to preserve a Copye, wdl possibly may in time be
rectified, than to have nothing at all thereof." In addition to
the Visitation with its " errors and mistakes," the volume
* It is ratlier singular that the original of Glover's Visitation of Yorkshire in
1584 is also stated to have been " purloined " from the College.
INTRODUCTION. XV
contains a series of other pedigrees which Dugdale says did
not, in his opinion, form a part of the Visitation.
From the disappearance of the original until the year 1668,
therefore, the Heralds did not even possess a copy of this
Visitation. But on the death of Ralph Sheldon, of Beoley,
co. Worcester, in 1684, the College acquired under his will the
two other manuscripts above named, one of which (Vincent 133)
was, in the absence of the original, allowed to be put in evidence
in 1785 in a trial respecting the manor of Mere, as appears by
a note inserted in the volume by Francis Townsend, Windsor
Herald.
Other manuscripts in public and private, collections pur-
porting to be copies of this Visitation (most of which were
carefully examined and abstracts of their contents taken by
Mr. Thorpe) are : —
1. A copy in the library at Loxley Park, transcribed by
Captain Fernyhough.
2. A copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford : Gough's
Staffordshire MSS., No. 1. This contains many
additional pedigrees, one dated 1750 and another
1752, and the Arms of Sir T. Broughton dated
1768.
3. A second copy in Queen's College library, Oxford.
4. Harl. MS. 818. A book in folio, containing, inter alia,
pedigrees from Glover's Visitation and from Erdes-
wick's Collections, written partly by Ralph Brooke
and partly by others.
5. Harl. MS. 1077. A folio MS., " the far greater part of
which was written and tricked a.d. 1621 by the
hand of John Withie, the arms painter." It is a
copy of Glover's Visitation, but has " many addi-
tions." This, as has been already stated, corresponds
nearly page by page with Lord Hatherton's MS.,
excepting the additions of which Wanley (Harl.
Catalogue) speaks, which are in another hand.
There are also inserted pedigrees of a later date :
inter alia, a pedigree of Mynors drawn up by John
Tilston in 1678, a pedigree of Foljambe " seeming
to be in the handwriting of Sir Henry St. George,"
XVI INTRODUCTION.
a pedigree of Nott of Cannock, and two pedigrees
of Leveson. It is noted in the Catalogue that
" Mr. Withie has transcribed the subscriptions of
the gentlemen at the bottom of their descents into
this book." It should be mentioned that the rota-
tion of the pedigrees in this MS. is quite different
to the Queen's College and Stukeley MSS.
6. Harl. MS. 1173. A transcript of Withie's book ; " but
it is to be noted that notwithstanding many gross
faults in this copy through the ignorance and care-
lessness of the copyiste, it is of value because of
many considerable additions made to it which are
wanting in Mr. Withie's book ; as Mr. Withie's
also has many recent additions inserted in it since
this transcript was made." (Wanley.)
7. Harl. MS. 1415. A folio volume, containing, besides the
Staffordshire Visitation, that of Yorkshire taken by
Glover in 1584-5. Wanley says he cannot be positive
as to who wrote this MS., "because it is known
that many officers of Arms wrote very like to one
another." In this MS. the last name in the list of
Staffordshire disclaimers is industriously blotted
out ; " the posterity or relations of him," writes
Wanley, "being perhaps grown ashamed of that
disclaiming." The name thus erased was " John
Coleman of Canke."
8. Harl. MS. 1429. Contains a few arms and memoranda
from Glover's Visitation ; also a few descents from
Dugdale's Visitation of 1663-4, inserted by John
Saunders. It also contains a so-called Visitation of
Hertfordshire, but this, says Wanley, is " a painter's
title," for arms painters (he adds) " when they see
a book of pedigrees relating to one county alone
usually call them Visitations without further exami-
nation."
9. Harl. MS. 1570. "Written and tricked by divers
hands ; more espescially by Mr. Nicholas Charles
and Mr. Eichard Mundy." It contains "a very
good copy " of Glover's Visitation, but with " very
INTRODUCTION. XV11
many enlargements and continuations by Richard
Mundy and others," and " some descents entered by
Mr. Mundy which were either not at all registered
at the Visitation of the County in 1583, or at least
not in so ample a manner."
10. Harl. MS. 6128. A very valuable collection of pedigrees
of Staffordshire families, which has been largely used
by genealogists and almost invariably quoted as
"The Visitation of 1583" — which it certainly is not.
Its date is circa 1620.
11. A copy referred to by Shaw (vol. 2, Introd., p. xxx) as
being then in the' possession of Mr. Sharpe "the
ingenious antiquary of Coventry." He describes
it as " a most curious copy of Glover's Visitation of
1583, transcribed by William Smith, Rouge Dragon,
1597, and illustrated with various additions by
Erdeswick, Rowland Frith [of Thornes, Shenstone]
the Herald, and others ; also a coloured map of the
county, and a later Visitation at the end."
In conclusion 1 desire to call special attention to Mr.
Parker's able article on the Wastineys family, and to express
a hope that it may be regarded as a precedent for similar
papers in illustration and correction of this Visitation.
H. Sydney Grazebrook.
December, 1882.
( xix )
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IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY ARE GIVEN IN THE
QUEEN'S COLLEGE AND STUKELEY MSS.
PAGE
PAGE
Stafford (seal)
27
Broughton of Longdon
. 60
Stafford .
. 132
Streethay .
. 137
Lichfield (seal) .
. 28
Everard
. 69
Paget
. 122
Bagshaw
. 41
Gresley and Gastneys .
. 86
Arblaster .
. 34
Gresley
85
Welles
145
Gresley (Stemma antiquis-
Hill .
98
simum) .
. 87
Endesore .
. 68
Harcourt .
91
Leigh
101
Coyney
65
Leigh, Rushall, etc.
103
Bagot
39
Grosvenor .
. 90
Trentham . . . .
139
Moseley
115
Fitzherbert
72
Whorwood .
148
Bassett, Meynell, etc. .
44
Leveson
106
Bassett
45
Whorwood .
150
Bassett and Egerton .
46
Giffard
80
Newcastle (seal) .
28
Whorwood of Bobington
151
Bowyer .
53
Wrottesley .
152
Thicknes .
138
Stamford of Pury Hall
133
Main waring
113
Stamford of Pakington, etc
135
Brett
55
Wyrley .
153
Colyar .
64
Skrimshire .
129
Foljambe .
77
Broughton of Broughton
58
Brooke .
56
Moreton .
114
Rugeley .
127
Whitgreave
147
Adderley .
. 33
Cholmley .
62
XX
LIST OF THE PEDIGREES RECORDED BY GLOVER.
PAGE
PAGE
Giffard . .81
Ashenhurst . . .35
Somirford .
131
Smith
130
Rudyerd
126
Unwyn
142
Biddulph .
50
Yardley
154
Aston .
37
Robinson .
125
Littleton .
108
Harcourt and Astley
94
Astley
36
Harcourt of Ranton
94
Dickens
67
Fitzherbert
74
Feme .
. 70
Humett
99
Nevill
. 116
Hawlces
97
Brooke, etc.
. 57
Petit .
124
Hunt
. 100
Verdon
144
Okeover
. 120
Bowes, etc.
51
Fitzwilliam
. 76
Plantney
125
Fowler
. 78
Corbett
64
Vise .
. 144
Lyseux
110
Crompton .
. 66
Bassett
47
Macclesfield
. Ill
Noel .
117
Bartram, etc.
. 42
Noel {ex Chartis, etc.)
119
Tyrrell
. 141
Finderne .
71
THE
Visitation of f^tafforosfjire,
A.D. 1583.
What is to be performed by the heralds at their
going in visitation.
The names of the Hundreds in such a sheere as they will visitt
being collected out of the Sheryve's bookes, or the Under-
sheryve's, with all the surnames and cristen names of all such
as are called or wrytten Knights, Esquyers, and Gentlemen in
the sheer, that beying taken and gathered then wrytten in a
booke, all those names so receaved every C by itselfe, which
doth serve them to marke the apearance of all such as doe
apeare (being warned by the Baylye of the sayde C by vertue
of a precept delyvered by the Herauld to him) in this maner :
J. M. Knight,
W. T. Esquier,
T. B. Gentln, apparuit,
A. S. Gentln, Ignobilis,
F. J. Gentln, apparuit, entred,
J. H. Gentln, Nothus,
they doe ryde to every Knight's house and take notice there,
as also to such esquyers as will have them come. The resi-
dewe are warned by the Bayley to appeare at the cheifest
towne in the Hundred at a daye certaine, where the sayde
Herauld doth resorte to take notyce.
B
2 the visitation op staffordshire, a.d. 1583.
Somerset's warrant, directed to the bailiff of the
Hundred of Cudleston, to summon the Esquires and
Gentlemen inhabiting within the said Hundred
to appear before him in order to the
enregistering of their several
arms and descents.
To John Berwike, baylif of the Hundred of Cudleston
in the countye of Stafforde, his Deputie or
Deputies.
These are to require you, and in the Queene's Majestie's
name to charge and commande you, that forthwth upon the
sight hereof you warne these Esq13 and Gent11 whose names
are hereunder written p'sonally to apeare before mee
Somersett, Marshall and Deputy to Norrey Kinge of Amies,
at Stafford on beinge the daye of ... .
at nyne of the clocke before Noone the same day, whereat I
doe intende to sytte for the better registeringe of all the
Gent, w'thin the sayde Hundred; and that they bringe
wth them such Armes and Creasts as they nowe use and
beare, wth their Pedigrees or Descentes, and such of theire
evidence or matter of record e and credite as may (if neede so
require) justifie the same : to the intent that I, knowinge
howe they use and chalenge the names of Esqr and Gentle-
man, and beare their Armes, may accordingly make
entrance therof and recorde the same ; or else to proceede
as the Vertue of my comissyon bindeth me in that behaulf .
Alsoe will such of them as have receaved either Armes,
Creasts, or Pedigrees of one WilPm Dakins,* the late lewde
* It would appear that this "lewde usurper" of Norroy's functions was a
member of the family formerly seated at Stubbing Edge, in Derbyshire. For Mr.
Glover, in his " History of Derbyshire," mentions a tablet in Ashover Church in
memory of sundry Dakeynes of Stubbing, and among those commemorated is
" Gulielmus Dakeyne, Norroy." Dallaway (" Heraldic Inquiries," p. 318) has printed
a copy of a "Warrant issued in 1597 by the then Earl Marshal directing the appre-
hension of this man. He is described as "a notable dealer in Armes, and maker of
false pedigrees," for which fault (it is added) " about xx years past he lost one of
his ears, and about a year past he was apprehended for the like and imprisoned."
It appears that Dakyns had compiled spurious pedigrees for nearly one hundred
families, and that his son Christopher Dakyns, and one Edward Waterhouse — the
latter " falsely calling himself servant to Clurenceux " — had carried on a like
nefarious trade.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 3
usurper of the office of Norrey Kinge of Armes, to bringe
them in to be cancelled, if they be untrue, and, beinge
founde justifiable, to receave the same at my handes wth war-
ran dize, as I am espetyally comanded by her Matie and the
Lordes of her Hignes' most honorable Privie Councell.
And these that may not comodiously bringe wth them such
theire evidences, auncient writinges, and monuments (sic) as
would serve to prove the antiquitie of theire race and
familye, but shalbe desirous to have me home to theire
houses ; upon the significatyon of such theire desires, for the
furtherance of Her Matie9 service, I will make my repaire unto
them soe soone as conveniently I maye. Herof charge them
not to fayle as they will avoyde the perill that may ensue of
any theire contemptes herin.
Geven at Stafford under the Scale of the office of Norrey,
the day of July, aho 1583, in the xxvth yeare of
the raigne of our most gratious Soveraigne Ladye
Queen Elizabeth.
Nomina* Nobilitjm de Com' Stafford, 1583.
[Being a list of those summoned by warrant to appear before
Glover, Somerset, and record their descents and arms.]
HUNDREDUM DE CuDLESTON.
Ap. Joh'es Asteley, vel Aspley, de Woodeaton. Ignobilis.
fRicardus Brooke, de Lapley, ar.
Entcl. Ap. JEdwardus Cholmeley, de Copenhall, gen.
Ap. Edwardus Clarke, aVs Grenway, de Shredicott.
Ignobilis.
* To a large proportion of the names in this list a trick of the family arms is
attached. I only note those which are not elsewhere recorded in this Visitation.
What authority attaches to these coats I am unable to say, but probably they are
mere memoranda made by the transcriber. I should mention that I am responsible
for the alphabetical arrangement here adopted.
f Cheeky, argent and sable, on a chief or, a brock (or badger) proper.
% The arms here given are .... three garbs, 2 and 1, between the two upper
garbs a crescent ; but see the Pedigree.
B 2
4 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Johannes Coleman, de Canke, gen.
*Franciscus Congreve, de Stretton, gen.
Matheus Cradock, de Villa de Stafford, gen.
Thomas Cress well, de Liddall, gen.
Kic'us Dickenson, de Bradley. Ignobilis.
Philippns Draycott, de Littlewood, gen.
Joh'es Egginton, de Roberson, gen.
Joh'es Fowke, de Guns'on, gen.
fPogerus Fowke, de Brewood, gen.
Will'nius Fynney, de Canke. Ignobilis.
Joh'es Giffard, de Chillington, ar.
Hnmfridns Giffard, de , tertins filius, gen.
JThomas Lane, de Hyde et de Bentley, ar., Jnstic'.
§Edwardus Littleton, de Pilletonhall, ar., Justic'.
Ricardus Milles, de Bedam, gen.
Joh'es Mitton aVs HarjDesfeild, de Weston under
Lizard, ar.
Adamus Moreton, de Wilbrighton, ar.
Ap. Edwardus Moreton, de Ingleton, gen.
Ap. Franciscus Picto, de Churcheaton. Ignobilis.
Ap. Thomas Skrimshire, de Forton, ar., fra' "
senior.
Jacobus Skrimshire, de Norbury, ar.,
fra' junior.
Galfridus Somerford, de Somerford, gen.
Entd. Edwardus, D'ns Stafford.
Ric'us Weston, de Rudgeley, gen.
Ap. Humfridus Whitgreve, de Burton, ar.
Erasmus Wolseley, de Wolseley, ar.
HlTNDREDUM DE OfFELOWE.
Georgius Abell, de Neuburgh, Senescallus com'
Salop.
* Sable, a chevron between three battle axes argent.
t Vert, a fleur-de-lis argent.
X .... a chevron between three mullets .... Added by Mr. Booth, " This
coat is mistaken, it should be parted p' fesse or and B., a ^-s G. bet. 3 mullets
counterchanged of the feild."
§ Argent, a bend cottised sable within a border engrailed gules bezautee, — the
coat of Westcote.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 5
Eiitd. Radulplrus Adderley, de Cotonhall, ar., Justic'.
Georgius Agard, de Barton.
Huinfridus Agard, de Newburgh.
Will'us Agai'd, de Tmistall, gen.
Entd. Ap. Thomas Arblaster, de Longdon, gen.
*Syinon Arden, de Yoxall, gen.
Entd. Ap. Nicholaus Bagshawe, de Farwell, gen.
Edward us Bassett, de Hintes, gen.
fJoli'es Bowes, de Elford, ar., Justic'. Recusavit.
JJoh'es Brittayne, de Sirescott et Tamworth, ar.
Ap. Rob'tus Brookes, de Haselore, gen.
Ap. Edwardus Broughton, de Longdon, gen.
Thomas Carden, del Hermitage.
§ Will'us Comberford, de Comberford, gen.
Ricardus Endesore, de Pagetts Bromley, gen.
Entd. Thomas Ensore, de Cumberford, gen.
Entd. Humfridus Everard, de Whittington, gen.
Rowlandus Eyre, de Hermitage, gen.
Entd. Thomas Fitzherbert, de Hampstall Rydware, Miles.
Thomas Fowke, de Aston, gen.
Thomas Frythe, de Thornes. Ignobilis.
Henricus Grove, de Handesworth. Ignobilis.
Ap. Joh'es Harmon, de Morehall, — a patent granted by
Garter and Clarencieulx.
Ap. Ric'us Hawkes, de Rushall, gen.
Entd. Hugo Hill, de Pipe, gen.
||Edmundus James, de com. Wigorn., ar., Justic'.
Hors du pays.
Entd. ^[Edwardus Leghe, de Rushall, ar.
** Will'us Madder, de Tonge, et de Harleston, ar.,
Justic'.
* Ermine, a fesse counter-componee or and azure.
t Ermine, three bows strung in fesse gules, a crescent for difference. See
" D mbtful Arms," post.
t See " Doubtful Arms."
§ Gules, on a cross engrailed or four roses of the field.
|| See " Doubtful Arms."
% Gules, on a cross engrailed between four unicorn's heads erased .... as many
roundles.
** Azure, on a fesse wavy ermine three lions rampant gules.
O THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Humfridus Minors, de Barton, gen.
Frauncis Monntford, de Walsall, ar.
Jacobus JSToell, de Pelsall, gen.
Joh'es Parsliouse, de Walsall. Ignobilis.
Will'us Rolston, de Rolston, gen.
Thomas Pudgley, de Hawkesyard, ar.
Entd. Ap. Will'us Ruggeley, de Smalwood, gen.
"^Thomas Salt, de Yoxall, gen.
fJoh'es Skevington, de Fiskerwick, ar.
Ap. Edwardus Sprott, de Askmerebroke. Ignobilis.
Entd. Eobertus Stamford, de Pyrybarre, ar., Justic'.
Entd. Ap. Will'us Staunford, de Pakinton et de Eowley, gen.
Walterus Stanley, de Westbromwicke, ar.
Entd. Ap. PkiLvppus Strettey, de Streetey, gen.
JRic'us Swynfeild, de Swinfeild, gen.
Ap. Humfridus Thickbrome, de Tkickbrome. Ignobilis.
Entd. Ap. Eob'tus Welles, de Horecrosse, ar.
§Thomas Whittington, de Newborowe, gen.
Entd. Thomas Wirley, de Handesworth, ar., Justic'.
|| Humfridus Wolverston, de Stotfeld, gen.
HuNDREDUM DE ToTMONSLOW.
Ap. Joh'es Ashenhurst, de Ashenhurst. Ignobilis.
Ap. Johannes Basford, de Hillsdale, Ignobilis.
Entd. Will'us Bassett, de Blore, ar., Justic'.
* Argent, a chevron conped between three mullets sable. With these arms
Thomas Salt quartered — (1) Stockley, of Yoxall, Argent, a chevron between three
boars statant gules, and (2) He wet, of Walsall, Sable, a chevron engrailed between
three owls or. Thomas Salt married Anne, daughter and coheir of Thomas Strong-
man, of Ealey (Rayleigh ?), Essex, and had issue — Eichard, Thomas, Eobert, and
Elizabeth (Harl. MS. 886, Vis. Essex, 1558, etc.). He was son of Eichard Salt,
and grandson of Eobert Salt, of Yoxall, by . . . ., daughter of . . . . Sprott, of Ash-
morebrook. His mother, Elizabeth, was daughter and coheir of Thomas Stockley,
of Yoxall, son of Ealph, and grandson of William Stockley, by Margaret, his wife,
daughter and coheir of John Hewet, of Walsall. See Leigh Pedigree.
f Argent, three bull's heads, erased sable, a mullet for difference. See " Doubtful
Arms." X This is no doubt intended for Swynfen.
§ Argent, a bugle horn strung between three escallops sable. This is the coat
of Tamhonie which Whittington was entitled to quarter. The coat borne by the
family was Argent, three mullets azure. See Shaw, i., 75 and 93.
II See "Doubtful Arms."
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 7
Bartk'us Colclougke, de Delpkurst. Ignobilis.
Rickard Crompton, de Ckeckley, ar., Justic'.
Entd. Joh'es Cuny, de Weston Cuny, ar.
* Jok'es Draycott, de Paynsley, ar.
Antkonius Eyton, de Matkfeld. Ignobilis.
Jok'es Feme, de Crakeinarcke. Ignobilis.
Ap. Henricus Flacket, de Cambridge. Ignobilis.
fJok'es Fleetwood, de Calewicke, ar.
Ric'us Flyar, de Utoxetur. Ignobilis.
Entd. Godfridus Foljambe, de Croxsden, ar. Nothus.
Ap. Jokannes Henskaw, de Lockwood. Ignobilis.
Jok'es Higginbotkain, de Ruskton. Ignobilis.
Ap. Hugk Hollyns, de Moseley. Ignobilis.
Ap. Tkomas Homersley, de Skaw. Ignobilis.
JAntkonius Kinnersley, de Locksley, gen.
Tkomas Madeley, de Denston. Ignobilis.
§ Sampson Meverell, de Tkrowley, ar.
Franciscus Mynoures, de Woodland, gen.
Entd. ||Rad's Minours, de Utoxetur, gen.
Ap. Will'us Mountford, de Banke, yeoman. Ignobilis.
Pkilippus Okeover, de Okeover, ar., Justic'.
Ap. Tkomas Parker, de Careswall. Ignobilis.
Jok'es Port, dellam. Ignobilis.
Ap. Tkomas Pyott, de Ckedull. Ignobilis.
Tkomas Rudyard, de Rudyard, ar., Justic', aVs
Teteswortk.
Ap. Edwardus Tkornebury, de Tkornebury. Ignobilis.
Ap. Tkomas Tirrell, de Ruskton, gen. Nothus.
Entd. Tkomas Trentkam, de Rocester, ar., Justic',
Custos Rotulor'.
Georgius Warner, de Dyllon, Coronator. Ignobilis.
1 Jok'es Wedgwood, de Harekells, gen., per R. C,
Clar', dat. 1576, 19 Eliz. reg.
* . . . . three piles, over all a bend ermine.
f Per pale nebulee or and azure, six martlets, 2, 2, and 2, counterchanged.
X Argent, a fesse vaire or and gules between three eagles displayed of the last.
§ .... a griffin segreant .... || See " Doubtful Arms."
^ Gules, three mullets, 1, 2, and 1, or, a cauton argent. Crest : On a ducal
coronet, a lion statant argent.
8 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Joli'es Wliitehurst, de Whithurst. Ignobilis.
Joh'es Woodward, de Madersfeild. Ignobilis.
HuNDREDTJM DE PlREHILL.
Walterus Aston, de Ticksall, Miles, Justic'. Recusavit.
Edwardus Aston, ar., fil. et hseres Walteri Aston,
Militis, Justic'.
Robertus Badger, de Whatington. Ignobilis,
Entd. Ricardus Bagott, de Blythfeild, ar., Justic'.
Edwardus Barbour de Flashbrooke. Ignobilis.
Ap. Georgius Bartram, de Barlaston, gen. Respited to
London.
^"Sampson Beresford, de Enston, gen. Ad Com.
Mariscall.
Joli'es Bedulplie, de Oldparke. Ignobilis.
Franciscus Bidolplie, de Bydolphe, ar.
Will'us Bowier, de Hetlihouse Grange, et de Brod-
lieath, gen.
Entd. Ap. Will'us Bowyer, de Knypersley, ar.
Ap. Thomas Bowyer, de Madeley, gen., fr. illius de
Knipersley.
fEd'us Braddock, de Adbaston, ar. Ad Com. Senes-
callus,
JEdwardus Brett, de Kele, ar.
Ap. Ranulphus Brette, de Stoke, gen., filius Edwardi.
Ap. Thomas Bratte, de Oswinton, gen., s'd's filius.
Henricus Brocke, de Hanley. Ignobilis.
Entd. Ap. Thomas Broughton, de Broughton, gen.
Ap. Johannes Broughton, de Whatington. Ignobilis.
Thomas Bucknall, de Ubbeley. Ignobilis.
§Joh'es Chetwynd, de Ingestre, ar., Justic'.
Robertus Collier, de Darlaston, ar.
|| Thomas Corbett, de Hanford, gen. Sum'us Con-
stabidarius.
* Argent, three bears rampant sable, muzzled or.
+ See " Doubtful Arms." J lb.
§ Two shields : 1. On a cross engrailed .... four mullets. 2. Azure, a chevron
between three mullets or. || Argent, three ravens, 2 and 1, proper.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 9
Humfridus Cotton, de Bothehall, ar.
Will'us Crompton, de Stone. Ignobilis.
Ap. Samson Dorrington, de Cotton. Ignobilis.
Entd. *Rad'us Egerton, de Wrynehill, Miles, Justic'.
Entd. fRad'us Eggerton, de Betley, ar.
Entd. JHugo Erdeswicke, de Sandon, ar.
Entd. Ap. J Sampson Erdeswick, de Sandon, gen.
§Robertus Comes Essex.
Ap. Hugo Fowden, de Fulford, summus Constabularius.
Ignobilis.
Brianus Fowler, de Sl Thomas, juxta Stafford, ar.
Ap. Rob'tus Gamble, de Hardwyke. Ignobilis.
||Franciscus Gattacre, de Swynnerton, ar. Hors du
pays.
Johannes Gaywood, de [Padmore?]. Ignobilis.
Nicholas Gaywood, de Bishops Offeley, gen.
Joh'es Gervys, de Chatkill, gen., Coronator. Igno-
bilis.
Entd. Thomas Greseley, de Colton, ar., Justic'.
Entd. Walterus Harecourt, de Ellenhall, ar.
Joh'es Harecourt, de Ranton, gen. Nothus.
Ap. % Walterus Heveningham, de Aston, ar. Respited to
London.
Entd. Ap. Will'us Macksfeild, de Meare, gen.
Entd. Edwardus Mainwayringe, of Whitmore, ar.
** Joh'es Nedham, de Wallinge, gen.
Entd. Ap. t1"Philippus Noell, de Hilcott, gen.
* Gules, a fesse ermine between three pheons argent.
t The same, a crescent for difference.
X Or, on a bend azure three eagles displayed argent. This is a strange mistake.
Both Hugh and Sampson Erdeswick really bore Argent, on a chevron gules five
bezants.
§ Argent, a fesse gules, in chief three torteaux.
|| Quarterly argent and ermine, on the second and third quarters two piles gules,
over all a fesse azure charged with three bezants. (Sic, but the trick does not
appear to be quite accurate.)
% Quarterly or and gules, within a border engrailed sable charged with roundles
(sic, but should be escallops argent), a crescent for difference.
** Argent, a bend engrailed azure between two buck's heads cabossed sable,
ft Or, fretty gules, a canton argent.
10 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Ap. Joli'es Orchard, de Garsall, yeoman. Ignobilis.
Will'us Overton, Coventrise et Leclifeild Ep'us.
Thomas Pettit, de Hexstall et de Broadheath, gen.
Henricus Pettit, de Bromley Pagetts, gen.
^Thomas Pey shall, de Horseley, ar. Hors du pays.
Rob'tus Peyshall, de Horseley, gen., frater junior.
Entd. fPetrus Roos, de Swineshed, ar. Extra Com.
Ap. Thomas Rowley, de Heyckley. Ignobilis.
Ap. Thomas Skrimshere, de Johnson, gen.
Rad'us Smyth, de Newcastle under Lyme, gen., aVs
Torbocke.
JRad's Sneyde, de Brad wall, ar., Justic'.
Georgius Sneyde, de Madeley, gen., frater.
§Edwardus Swynnerton, de Ecclesall, gen. "1 Hors du
Hugo Swinnerton, de Ecclesall, filius. I pays.
Entd. Ap. Rad's Thicknes, de Balterley, gen.
Ap. Will'us Unwyn, de Chahterley, gen. Respited to
London.
Thomas Unwyn, de Clough, gen.
Ap. Will'us Vyse, de Staundon, gen. Respited to
London.
Sampson Walkden, de Walton, gen. J£§
Ap. Sampson Walker, de Weston. Ignobilis.
Thomas Whitgreve, de Bridgford, gen. Ad Com.
Mariscallum.
Thomas Whitmore, de Madeley. Ignobilis.
|| Erasmus Wolsey, de Wolsey, in Hundredo de Cud-
dleston, ar.
Joh'es Woolriche, de Oncott. Ignobilis.
Will'us Yardley, de Audley, gen. Respited to Sr
Ralph Edgerton's.
Joh'es Yonge, de Charnes. Ignobilis.
* Argent, a cross forinee flory sable, on a canton gules a wolf's head erased
of the first.
t See " Doubtful Arms."
% A scythe in bend sinister .... between the blade and the handle, (or " snead,")
a fleur-de-lis.
§ See " Doubtful Arms."
|| Argent, a talbot passant gules.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 11
HuNDREDUM DE SeYSDON.
"^Gilbertus Astley, de Patteshill, ar.
Rad's Broke, de Bobington, gen.
Joh'es Ores wall, de Wolv'hampton, gen.
Entd. Ap. Will'us Dickens, de Bobington, gen.
Jacobus Fowler, de Penford, gen.
Ap. Will'us Foxall, de Bilson, yeoman.
fJoh'es Grey, de Envill, ar., Vicecomes, Justic'.
Walterus Grosvenor, de Bushbury, ar.
Philippus Hall, de .... gen., su'mus Constabu-
larius. Ignobilis.
Will'us How, de Bradley. Ignobilis.
Ap. Thomas Leveson, de Wolv'hampton, ar.
Rob'tus Moseley, de Bilston, gen.
Entd. Ap. Henricus Plantney, de Wolverhampton, gen.
Thomas Rickthorne, de Bobington, gen.
JThomas Waring, de la Lea, juxta Wolv'hampton,
Justic'.
Thomas Whorwood, de Compton, ar.
Entd. Ap. Will'us Whorwood, de Bobington, gen.
Walterus Wrottesley, de Wrottesley.
The form of the warrant of summons against such as
contemptuously refuse to appear upon
the former warrant, to make their
further appearance before the
Earl Marshall.
To Mr. A. B., of . . . . , Esquier.
Forasmuch as you have refused to make your apearance
before mee, Somersett, Marshall to Norroy Kinge of Armes, at
Chedle, whereat I lately sate in comission for the registringe
of the Gentlemen w'thin the Hundred of Totmonslowe
accordinge to such warninge as was given you by the Baylife
* See " Doubtful Arms."
t John Grey was Sheriff 24 Eliz. (Shaio.)
X Sable, three bird's heads erased argent.
12 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
of the same Hundred in that behaulf, I am of dutye to proceed
wth you as my Comissyon byndeth mee in such cases of con-
tempte. These are, therefore, to require you, and in the
Queene's Maties name to charge and comaunde you to apeare
personally before the Eight Honorable George Earle of
Shrewsbury, Earle Marshall of Ingland, on the 12th day of
October nexte ensuinge the date hereof, there to answere unto
and yelde the reason of this youre disobedyence and contempte ;
before whome (as by an espetyall clause and braunche of my
sayde Comissyon it is ordered) the same is to be hearde and
determined. And herof fayle you not, as you will avoyde the
further perill that may enseue.
Gyven at under the seale of the office of
Norrey, the day of August, An0 D'ni 1583,
in the 25th ye are of the raigne of our most
gratious Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth.
The manner of the Heralds' Proclamation
for the disclaiming of
IGNOBLE persons.
The Queene's most excellent matie beinge very desirous that
the Nobillitye and Gentry of this her realme should be pre-
served in every degree as apertayneth as well in honor as
in worshippe ; and that every person and persons, bodyes
pollitique, corporate, and others, should be knowne in their
estates and misteryes without confusyon and disorder. And
having therfore authorised me, Somersette Heralde, as
Marshall and Deputy to JSTorroy Kinge of Arms of the North
parties of this Realme of Englande, not onely to visite all the
sayde province to peruse and take knowledge, survey, and
vewe of all manner of Armes, Cognisances, Creasts, and other
like devises, wlh the notes of the descentes, pedegres, and
marriadges of all the Nobillitie and Gentry therin throughout
conteyned, but alsoe to reprove, controll, and make infamous
by Proclamatyon all such as unlawfully, and wthout just
authoritye, vocatyon, or due callinge, doe or have done, or
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 13
shall usurpe, or take upon him or them any name or tytle of
honor or dignitye, as Esqr, or Gentleman, or other, as by her
Highnes' gratious l'res patentes and comission under the greate
seale of England, more plainly doth apeare : Know ye that I,
the sayd Somersett, for the accomplishment of her Maties
desire, and furtherance of her Highnesse service that waye,
at this present makinge my survey wthin the Hundred
of Pirehill, in the county of Stafforde, have founde these
persons, whose names are hereunder written, preasumptuously,
wthout any ground or authoritie, to have usurped the name and
tytle of Gent, contrary to all righte and to the most auncient
custome of this lande, and to the usage of the lawe of Amies :
wch name and tytle they are by me admonished noe more from
henceforth to use or take upon them, upon such further paine
and perill as by the Earle Marshall of Englande is to be
inflicted or layde upon them. And for that purpose the
Sherife, and Clarkes of the Assises, and of the Peace, of this
Countie are by me to be admonished to forbeare herafter to
write or call them by that name and tytle ; wherof alsoe, as
my comission byndeth mee, I thought good hereby to advertise
all other her Maties good and lovinge subjects of this Hundred,
that as they tender her Highnes' pleasure and desire in this
behalf, they from henceforth shunne and avoyde the like, and
forbeare to use in any writinge or otherwise, the addityon of an
Esq'' or Gentleman unlesse they be able to stand unto and Justine
the same by the lawe of Armes, and the lawe of the Realme.
Geven at Newcastle under Lyme under the seale of the
office of Norroy, the day of Auguste, An0 1583.
14 the visitation of staffordshire, a.d. 1583.
The Names of those that in the time of this
vlsitacon of staffordsheire have made noe
proofe of theire gentry, bearinge noe armes,
and yet, before tyme, had called and
written themselves gentlemen, and
were therfore disclaymed in the
cheife places of the hundreds
wherin they dwell,
VIZT,
PlREHILL,
Disclaimed at Newcastle under Lyme, and at Stone, the 5th
and 6th dayes of August, for the Hundred of Pirehill in Com.
Staff, these followinge, viz. : —
John Orcharde, of Garsall.
Thomas Rowley, of Heykley.
Robte. Gamble, of Hardewyke.
John Yonge, of Charnes.
Robte. Badger, of Whatington.
Thomas Pettit, of Hexstall. .Jgf
Thomas Bucknall, of Ubbelley.
Henry Pettyt, of Bromley Pagetts. .Jgfl
Edw. Barbour, of Flotesbrooke.
John Gaywoode, of Padmore.
Hugh Fowden, of Fulford.
Sampson Walker, of Weston.
John Broughton, of Whatington.
John Bedle, of Olde Parke.
John Gervis, of Chatkill.
John Woolriche, of Oncott.
Thomas Whitemore, of Madeley.
Henry Brocke, of Hanley.
Nicholas Gaywood, of Bishoppes Offley.
TOTMONSLOWE,
Disclaymed at Utoxetur the viij1'1 day of August for the
Hundred of Totmonslowe, in the countie of Stafforde, these
followinge, viz* : —
Richard Flyar, of Utoxetur.
Thomas Madeley, of Denston.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 15
John Porte, of Ham.
Henry Flackette, of Cambridge.
John Woodward, of Maderfeilde.
Thomas Parker, of Creswall.
John Hig'ginbotham, of Rushton.
Bartholomew Colclugh, of Delphurst.
Thomas Pyot, of Chedle.
Edward Thornbury, of Thornebury.
John Henshawe, of Lockwood.
John Basford, of Hilsdale.
Anthony Eyton, of Mathfeild.
Tho. Homersley, of Shawe.
Will'm Momford, of Banke.
John Ashenhnrst, of Ashenhurst.
John Wliitehurste, of Whithurst.
Hugh Holly ns, of Moseley.
John Feme, of Crakemarshe.
Willyam Crompton, of Stone.
Offelowe.
These followinge of the Hundred of Offelowe, in the
countye of Stafford, were disclaymed at Leichfeilde on
Wensday the xiiijth day of August 1583, viz. : —
Henry Grove, of Handesworth.
Thomas Frithe, of Thornes.
John Parshouse, of Walsall.
Edward Sjsrott, of Ashmerebroke.
Humfrey Thickbrome, of Thickbrome.
Setsdon.
These followinge of the hundred of Seisdon were dis-
claimed at Wolv'hampton on fryday the xvith day of Auguste,
1583 :—
Phillippe Hall, of
Will'm Foxall, of Bilston.
Will'm Howe, of Bradley.
16 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 15S3.
James Barnesley, of Trisley.
*Humfry Whitwike, of Wliitwike.
CUDDLESTON.
These followinge of the hundred of Cudleston in the county
of Stafford were disclaymed at Stafford on the 21st day of
August 1583, viz. : —
John Astley, of Woodeaton.
Edward Clerke, of Shredicotte.
Richard Dickenson, of Bradley.
Frauncis Picto, of Churcheaton.
Will'm Fynny, of Canke.
John Egginton, of Roberson.
* Opposite this name in Harl. MS. 1429, is written, "This Gent, aproved
himselfe to he of good antiquity and of a good and auneient family." As the name
of Humphrey Wigbtwiok does not appear in the list of those summoned, Glover
would seem to have gone out of his way to brand him as " Ignobilis." The
Heralds sometimes made mistakes of this kind. At the Visitation of Derbyshire in
1611, Stephen Langsdon of Langsdon in that shire was disclaimed, but he was sub-
sequently admitted to be a gentleman and to have a right to arms. The following
certificate by St. George, Norroy (extracted from Harl. MS. 1470), so curiously
illustrates this subject that I make no apology for introducing it here: — "The
king's most excellent Matie being desirous that ye Gentry of his kingdom might be
preserved in every degree, estate, etc., and to that end hath given full power and
authority under the Greate Seale of England unto mee, Richard S' George, Norroy
King of Armes, not only to summon all the Gentlemen w'th in my Province, but also
to distinguish and make infamous by Proclamation all such as shall usurpe or take
upon thorn the name of Esquire or Gentleman without just authority. And
whereas Stephen Longsdon, of Longsdon, in co. Derby, appeared before me in my
Visitacon and disclaimed the title of a gentleman under his hand, as not knowing
how he might justifio the same, I proceeded against him according to my Com'ission.
Since wch tymo, he, making further inquiry, and finding that his Auncestors have
been of long time reputed Gentlemen and borne Amies, wch (as I am informed by
some of good sort in the Contrey) he is able to prove by evidence and other good
record, he hath desired me to aflirme his right and publish the same. "Wherefore
these are to make knowne unto all manner of p'sons whatsoever that the said
Stephen Langsdon may lawfully use and bear such Armes and Creasts as his
Auncestors have done before him, and as he may lawfully justifie ; And also that it
shal be lawful] for him to beare the name, title, and dignity of a Gentleman in such
manner and forme as any of his predecessors have done, or as he may lawfully
justifie. In witness whereof I the said Norroy King of Armes have sett to my
hand and seale of my office. Dated the xxth clay of November in the ixth yeare of
o'r Sovereigne Lord James by the grace of God King of Great Prittaign, Prance,
and Ireland. Rich : Sl George, Norroy King of Armes."
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 17
Richard Milles, of Betham.
John Coleman; of Canke.
The names being wrytten on a sheet of papere with fayer
great letters, was caryed by the Baylyfe of the hundred and
one of the Herauld's men to the cheife towne of that hundred,
where in the cheife place therof, the Herauld's man redd the
names (after crye made by the Bay lye and the people gathered)
and then pronounced openly by the sayd Baylye every man's
name severally conteyned in the sayd bill. That done the
Baylie set the sayd byll of names on a poste, faste with waxe,
whear it may stand drye, so it bee, as aforesayd, in the
chieffest place of the sayd towne.
Staffordshire.
Secunda Solucio Subsidij anno regni D'nce Elizabethan
nunc xviij0 a laicis concess'.
Beginc
Hundredu' de Pteehill.
li.
s.
d.
a
a
13 u
M o
W
Aston et Burston.
Dorothea Heveningham,
in terr'
XX
J
j
Bedull, Bucknall,
Frauciscus Byddolph, ar.,
XX
J
j
et Fenton.
in terr'
Blithefeld.
Bic'us Bagot, ar., in terris
XX
i
3
Chebsey.
Erasmus Wolseley, in
terris
xiij
VJ
viij
ij
Colton.
D'na Catherina G-reys-
ley, in terr'
X
ij
Eccleshall Home.
Franciscus Bosse, ar., in
terris
XXX
j
3
Thomas Persall, in terris
XX
i
3
Edward Barbour, in terris
X
ij
Thomas Skrimsher, in
X
ij
terris
Hopton et C otton.
Brian Fowler, ar., in terris
xxvj
xiij
viij
j
Kebuston.
Thomas Busby, in bonis
XX
ij
Keele.
Edward Brette, in terris
X
ij
Meare, Aston.
Bad's Maxfeild, in terris
X
ij
18
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
li. s. d.
Pencle cu' Mem- Bad's Bagnall, miles, in xl
bris. terris
Anthonius Colclugh, in x
terris
Sondon. Hugo Erdeswike, in terris xx
Tonstall Courte. Bad's Sneyde,ar., in terris xv
D'na Sneyde, in terris xv
Tyxall. "Walterus Aston, miles c
Trentham. D'na Leveson, in terris x
Thomas Fytton, ar., in x
terris
"Whitmore et Han- Edward Maynwaring, in x
.1 y
3 3
ij
y
ij "ij
ij
ij
cliurche.
terris
HlTNDREDU' DE SETSDON.
Wolv'hampton. Thomas Leveson, ar., in xiij vj viij
terris
Henricus Panckeney, in xiij vj viij
bonis
Patsell. Gilbert Astley, ar., in xx
terris
"Wrottesley. Johannes "Wrottesley, ar., xx
in terris
Enveild. Johannes Grey, ar., in xxviij
terris
Bobington. Bad's Broke, in terris x
Kynvare. Thomas Whorwood, ar., xx
in terris
Brewood.
Hilton.
HTJNDREDUM DE CUDDLESTON.
D'na Ursula Giffard, in xv
terris
Johannes Giffard, ar., in xx
terris
Thomas Lane, ar., in xv
terris
Galfridus Somerford, in x
terris
Vidua Vernon, in terris x
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
19
li. s. d.
Meere et Eorton. Thomas Skrymslier, ar., x
in terris
Norbury. Jacobus Skrymslier, ar., x
in terris
Stretton. Eranciscus Congreve, ar., x
in terris
"Weston subtus Johannes Mytton, ar., in siiij
Liziat. terris
ii
HuNDREDUM DE ToTMANTSLOWE.
Loxley. Thomas Kynnersley, ar., x
in terris
Ham'. Philippus Okover, ar., in xiij vj viij
terris
Mathfeld. Sampson Meverell, ar., in xx
terris
Rocett'. Thomas Trentham, ar., in xx
terris
Ellaston. Johannes Fletwood, ar., xx
in terris
Grryndon. "Will'm's Bassett, ar., in xxx
terris
Draycott. Johannes Draycott, ar., xxx
in terris
Burgus de Stafford, nihil.
Civitas Lichefeld, nihil.
HUNDREDUM DE OFFELOWE.
Dunstable, Taten- Roulandus Bougley, in xx
hill, et Coling- terris
wood.
Stotfeld. Humfridus "Wolverston, x
in terris
Hinteys. Edwardus Basset, in terris xv
Hampstall Rid- Thomas Eitz Herbert, xl
ware. miles, in terris
Toxall. Simon Arden, ar., in x
terris
C 2
20
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
II. s.
X
d.
"Wygginton. Thomas Cumberford, in
terris
Eysherwicke. Johannes Skevington, in xv
terris
Hondesworthe. Thomas Wyrley, ar., in xx
terris
Henry Groves, in terris x
"Walsall Foreyne. Franciscus Montford, in x
terris
"Weforde et Thick- Humfridus Thickbrome, xiij vj viij
brome. in bonis
Elford. Johannes Bowes, ar., in xxvj xiij iiij
terris
Pyry Barre. Robertus Stamford, ar., xx
in terris
Drayton Basset. Thomas Robinson, in x
terris
Pype cum Mem- Edward Sprott, in terris x
bris.
Launces ..
Lighthorses iiijxxxix
cxxmj
Nomina et Arma nobiliu' et equitu' auratoru' de com'
Stafford qui cum Ed. I., rege, stipendia merebant
in Scotia et alibi.*
Sr Robert de Hastange.
Sr John de Hastange.
Azure, a chief gules, over all a
lion rampant or.
The same arms, with a label
argent.
* These shields of the Knights of " Estaffordeschire " were taken from an
ancient Roll, the original of which is still preserved among the Cotton Mann-
scripts in the British Museum. It is headed " Ces sunt les Noms c les Armes a
Banerez de Engleterre," and contains the arms of the said knights blazoned in
French and arranged under counties. Sir Harris Nicolas, under whose able editor-
ship the entire Roll was published in 1829, dates it between the second and seventh
years of Edward II. This, he says, is " manifest from internal evidence, and the
handwriting is undoubtedly of that age." The same Roll had been previously
printed by Sir Francis Pal grave in the volume of Parliamentary "Writs edited by
PLATE 1.
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gttimm (Jo:j:i^^i#*uiiam*t$mtit
iuj^ailaaetaliH.
XiajShinge, lia^ittn^t. Tia£tauj&A Tia£Un$e.
H^tun^. 5f?plefotte. maS'htetS. m*$ltxt*%$,
^Staalato*. .HppUbeg. TEleg*^ Farafyam-
Big*.
ffarry Soane. ffmddu £?iyavfr .C London
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Sr Bobert de Hastange.
S1' Richard de Hastange.
21
Sr Pliillippe de Hastange.
Sr Eob't de Stepletone.
S1' William Wastneis.
Sr Ednionde Wasteneys.
Sr Rafe de Stanlawe.
Sr Henry de Applebey.
Sr William de Weyer.
Sire Rob'te de Farnham.
Sr Thomas de la Pipe.
Azure, a chief gules, over all a
lion rampant double tailed or.
Azure, a chief gules, over all a
lion rampant or, a bendlet
argent.*
Azure, a chief gules and a lion
rampant argent.
Azure, a lion rampant double
tailed or.
Sable, a lion rampant argent,
collared gules.
Sable, a lion rampant double
tailed argent.
Argent, a lion rampant sable,
the tail forked and nowed.
Azure, six martlets, 3, 2, and 1, or.
Argent, a fessef between three
crescents gules.
Quarterly argent and azure, four
crescents counterchanged.
Azure, seme de cross-crosslets, a
fesse or. J
Arma Nobilium de Com. Stafford, ex libro antiquo in
officio armorum.§
Le Conte de Stafford. Or, a chevron gules.
Sr Richard de Stafford. Or, a chevron gules between three
martlets sable.
him under the authority of the Record Commission. The spelling of the names in
the Stukeley MS. does not in every instance exactly correspond with that of the
original Roll, and the arms are in " trick," but I have here reduced them to modern
blazon, and preserved the orthography of the Visitation.
* In the original Roll " un bastoun."
t The word fesse has been subsequently added (in the original Roll) in place
of one which was erased. (Nicolas.)
X This entry in the original Roll is " in another but apparently an early hand."
(Nicolas.)
§ Whether this " liber antiquus " still remains in the College of Arms I have
not ascertained, but this list is given in all, or nearly all, the existing copies of the
Visitation. Erdeswick possessed a copy and so did Wyrley. The latter dates it
"aut finem regis Ed. tertii, aut incipient, regis Ri. secundi, ut opinor." The
22
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
S>- Nicholas de Stafford.
Sr Humphrey de Stafford.
Le Sieur de Audley.
Le Baron de Dudley.
Le Sieur Bassett.
Sr Foulco de Penbrugge.
Sr Thomas de Arderne.
Penbrugge.
Sr Eoger Illary.
Sr Walter de Audley.
*Sr Thomas Cawne.
Sr John Bagott.
Sr Gyles Erdinton.f
Or, a chevron gules, a chief
azure.
Or, a chevron gules within a
border engrailed sable.
Gules, fretty or.
Quarterly : 1 and 4, Or, two lions
passant in pale azure ; 2 and
3, Argent, a cross patonce azure.
Or, three piles gules, a canton
ermine.
Barry of six or and azure.
Gules, six crosses crosslet fitche,
3, 2, and 1, and a chief or.
Barry or and azure.
Sable, a fleur-de-lis or.
Gules, fretty or, a border argent
charged with fleurs-de-lis and
crosses crosslet fitche alter-
nately, sable.
Per pale argent (" forsan fuit
azure ") and gules, a lion ram-
pant double tailed of the
first.
Argent, a chevron gules between
three martlets sable.
.... three (sic) lions passant
former refers to it in these words : " I have myself the copy of a Roll of Armory,
intituled, ' Arma Nobilium de Com. Staff.,' where it is said that le Counte de
Stafford post de or, a une cheveron de gules ; and not far after it saith ' Antiquiora
insignia de Audele, Azure, trois choisers, or butterflies, de argent ; and Monsieur
John de Chandose port de argent a une pile de gules ;' whereby it appeareth that
the said Roll was made in the time of Edward III." (Edit. 1844, p. 102.) From
this it appears that Erdeswick's copy was in blazon.
* This shield is blank in Harl. MS. 6128, and also in Lord Hatherton's MS.
Vide post.
f After the marriage of Henry de Erdiugton with Maud, daughter of Roger de
Somerie, the Erdingtons bore Azure, two lions passant or — the Somerie coat with
the colours reversed. In the Roll of temp. Edw. II., Sir Henry de Erdiugton
bears the coat within a border gules. And, according to Dugdale, Sir Giles de
Erdiugton, who died 49 Edw. III., bore for his arms a bend over his two lions.
PLATE 2
j^mal^Kltum lie
Qpm. j3taffo*o, tpc iitoa
atttiqtu) iu officio atmowra.
jSfaff orb. .Staff orb. ^tafforb. £iafforb
JHubleg. DttbHe|). 3as?rtt T'rabnigse.
.J-uBl, jtiO\ ,/OCrL
JIuMeg.
T^a^otf ^[rburtwu Cj&foue Berton.
y&A/y Soone. ffenddicETyfraxerteZondm
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583
S1' Thomas Cawne.
23
S1' Jolin Perton.
Sr Walter de Bentley.
Sr Robert de Swinnerton.
Sr William Newport.
Per pale azure and gules, a
lion rampant double tailed
argent.
Azure, on a chevron gules be-
tween three pears pendent or,
as many bezants.
Argent, a chevron gules.
Argent, a cross forme flore
sable.
Gules, on a canton sable a fleur-
de-lis argent.
Audley jadis. — In margin Azure, three butterflies argent.
" Antiquiora Arma de
Audley."
Argent, on a fesse cottised sable
three escallops of the field.
Argent, a pile gules.
Sable, a fesse between six mart-
lets argent.
Azure, a chevron between three
ewers or.
Argent, two bars each cottised
sable.
Vaire argent gutte de poix and
gules.
Argent, two bars gules within a
border engrailed sable.
Argent, a fesse and in chief three
lozenges sable.
Argent, on a chevron gules be-
tween three cinquefoils azure,
as many bezants.
Bendy or and sable.
Sable, a chevron engrailed between
three owls ardent.
Sr Henry Bushbury.
Sr John Chaundois.
Sr John de Hyde.
Sr Edward Butler.
SL' Peirs de Cariswall.
Gresley.
*Sr Benet de Sutton.
Sr Eoger de Aston.
Sr John de Hampton. f
William Bentley.
John Hewet.
* Tn Harl. MS. 1570, "Sir ... . Bennet, de Sutton," which is probably
correct, the coat being that of Bennet, not Sutton.
t Lord Hatherton's MS. and Harl. MS. 1570 add the crest, A wolf's head
couped sable.
24
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
*Harry Harville.
William de Strettay.
John de Swinerton.
Nicholas de Ruggeley,
Sr Thomas de Aston.
Sr Richard de Verdon.
tSr John de Touchet.
JS1' Thomas Mawreward.
Sr Jacob de Pype.§
Sr Thomas de Tamhorne.
Sr Robert Mawissin.
S' Thomas Beeke.
Sr John Gyffard.f
Sr Hugh Wrottesbury **
Sr John Grendon.
Sr Geffrey Congreve.ft
Argent, two lions passant in pale
sable, crowned or.
Argent, three buck's heads ca-
bossed or attired gules.
Argent, a cross forme flory sable
within a border engrailed
gules.
Argent, on a chevron sable
three pierced mullets of the
field. Crest : A stag's head
erased or.
A blank shield.
Argent, fretty sable, on a canton
gules a martlet of the first.
A blank shield.
A blank shield.
A blank shield.
A blank shield.
Bendy gules and argent.
Gules, a cross ermine.
Or, a cross engrailed sable.
Or, three piles sable, a canton
ermine.
A blank shield.
A blank shield.
* Harl. MS. 6128 and other MSS. give the field sable and the lions argent,
and it was so quartered by Comberford. See Harl. MS. 1439, etc.
t Ermine, a chevron gules. (Harl. MS. 6128.)
X " Shaweward " in Harl. MS. 1570.
§ James in Harl. MS. 6128, where the following arms are given — Azure,
crusuly or, two pipes conjoined in chevron of the last. Erdeswick says that " Sir
James de Pipe, who lived 28 Edw. III., sealed with a chevron in a bordure plain,"
though bis father, Robert, bore the arms above described.
|| Argent, a bugle horn strung between three escallops sable. (Harl. MS.
6128.)
f This is an undoubted mistake. The coat is that of Ufford. In the Harl.
MS. 6128 the shield is blank ; in MS. 1570 c:al's Ufford " is added. It is curious
that in a Roll stated to be of the reign of Edward I., the same coat is ascribed to
Robert do Giffard, though in the margin is written "credo Ufford."
** " Wrottesley alias Wrotsley " in Harl. MS." 6128.
ft Sable, a chevron between three battle axes argent. (lb.)
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
25
Chetelton.*
John Boffrey.
Cornelius Wirley.
Nicholas Waringe.f
Ednionde at Lowe.
Ric'us Lewson.
Sr Thomas Sutton.
Sr William Warter.}
Sheldon.
§Bromfeild.
||Spilman.
Argent, on a chevron within a
border engrailed gules five
bezants.
Argent, a chevron between three
annulets sable.
Azure, three bugle horns argent.
Sable, three falcon's heads erased
argent.
Argent, a chevron between three
carpenter's squares sable.
Quarterly azure and gules, three
dexter hands couped at the
wrist argent.
Or, two lions passant in pale
azure.
Argent, a chevron engrailed be-
tween three chess-rooks sable.
Argent, on a bend gules, three
sheldrakes or.
Sable, on a chevron argent three
broom sprigs vert.
Quarterly : 1 and 4, Sable, platee
two nanches argent ; 2 and 3,
Gules, a chief ermine.
* " William de Chettelton." (Harl. MS. 6128.)
f " De la Lee." (lb.)
t After this name in Harl. MS. 1570 is written " Finis E-otuli." And there is
really no doubt that the ancient Roll ends with Thomas Sutton, the succeeding
coats being of a much later date. Who Sir William Warter was I have not ascer-
tained, but Burke (" General Armory ") states that a similar coat was borne by a
Sir Wm. Warter temp. Henry VIII. The same writer ascribes this coat to Warter
or Walter of Cimdall, co. York, and it was allowed at the Visitation of Middlesex
in 1663 to William Walters of Edmonton, second son of Christopher Walters of
Cundall, co. York. The Walcots of Shropshire bear a somewhat similar coat.
§ The same coat was borne by Brome of Warwickshire. See the Visitation of
that county taken in 1619.
|| This is the coat of Spelman quartering Narborough as borne by the famous Sir
Henry Spelman of Narborough, co. Norfolk (5. 1562, ob. 1641). Gwillim (first
ed. 1611, p. 253) gives a cut of these arms, and says, " These coat-armors thus
marshalled are borne by Sir Henry Spelman, Knight, a man very studious, a
favourer of learning, and a careful preserver of antiquities." I have not been able
to discover any connection between this family and the county of Stafford.
26
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
*Spilman.
Quarterly : 1 and 4, as the last ;
2 and 3, Gules, a cross patonce
between four trefoils slipped or.
In Deambulatorio Baronis de Burleygh apud
THlBAULDE's.f
Or, a chevron gules.
Argent, a fesse gules, in chief
three torteaux.
Gules, fretty or.
Or, a lion rampant double tailed
vert.
Dominus Stafford
Comes Essex.
Dominus Audley.
Dominus Dudley.
Dominus Pagett.
Walter us Aston, miles.
Gresley.
Litleton aVs Westcote.
Egerton.
Bagenholte.
Fleetwoode.
Sable, on a cross engrailed be-
tween four eagles displayed
argent five lions passant of the
field.
Argent, a fesse sable, in chief
three lozenges of the last.
Vaire ermine and gules.
Argent, a bend cottised sable
within a border engrailed gules
be z ante.
Gules, a fesse ermine between
three pheons argent.
Sable, an inescutcheon argent
charged with a leopard's face
gules within an orle of eight
martlets of the second.
Per pale nebule or and azure, six
martlets, 2, 2, and 2, counter-
changed.
* The quartering is " Manning of Downe, Kent, confirmed 1577 " (Papworth).
A similar coat is ascribed to Manning of Norfolk.
f Theobald's, Herts, then the seat of the famous Lord Burleigh, but afterwards
the royal palace of King James I., who acquired it from Sir Eobert Cecil in ex-
change for Hatfield. We learn from a survey of crown lands, made in 1650 by the
Parliamentary Commissioners, that on the east side of the house was a cloister and
over it a long gallery, called the " Green Gallery," in which were " excellently well
painted" the arms of the noblemen and gentlemen in the "severall shires in
England."
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THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
27
Wrottesley.
Fowler.
Stafford, Bagott.
Griffith.
Okeover.
Wirley.
Sneyde.
Salte.
Erdeswike.
Agard.
Minours.
Draycott.
Kinardesley.
Or, three piles sable, a canton
ermine.
Azure, on a chevron between
three lions rampant or, as
many crosses crosslet sable.
Or, a chevron between three
martlets gules.
Gules, on a fesse dancette argent
between six lions rampant or,
three martlets sable.
Ermine, a chief gules charged
with three bezants.
Argent, a chevron engrailed be-
tween three bugle horns sable,
stringed or.
Argent, a scythe and snead, blade
in chief sable, in the dexter
chief a fleur-de-lis.
Argent, a chevron couped be-
tween three mullets sable.
Argent, a chevron gules charged
with five bezants.
Argent, a chevron gules between
three boar's heads couped close
sable.
Gules, a fesse argent between
three plates.
Paly of six or and gules, a bend
ermine.
Argent, a fesse vaire or and gules
between three eagles displayed
of the last.
The Seale of the Towne of Stafforde.
[Here is a trick of the Seal.']
The Towne of Stafforde, hed borrough of the County, is
ancyently corporated and privileged by Kinge .... Whereof
at the tyme of this presente Visitac'on Nicholas Woodhouse
28 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
and Frauncis Lee were Baylifes and Justices of Peace within
the libertyes therof, Frauncys Cradocke recorder of the sayde
Towne, likewise Justice of Peace w'thin the liberties therof; and
these whose names hereafter ensue were of the companie and
brotherhood of the same Towne that is to say : Mathew Cra-
docke, Thomas Whitby, Martyn Nowell, James Shirewood,
William Blackborne, John Homersley, Roberte Lee, Edmond
Blore, Richard Sterton, George Cradocke, Thomas Dorrington,
Edward Lee, Richard Cotton, William Morres, William Dun-
calf, Richard Dorington, and Willyam Phillippes.
The Seale of the Towne of Leichfeilde.
[Here is a trick of the Seal.~\
The Cittie of Lichfeilde, in the Countye of Stafforde, is in-
corporated by the name of Baylifes, Burgesses, Cittizens, and
the Commonaltye of the same Cyttie, by the noble prince of
famous memorye Kinge Edwarde the Sixth, in the firste yeare
of his Raigne. And at the tyrne of this present Visitac'on of
Staffordshire were Baylifes therof, John Chatterton and
Humfrey Ilsley ; and John Blounte was sherife. And these,
whose names doe herafter followe, were then Citizens and of
the Corporation of the same Cittye, that is to saye : Humfrey
Lowe, Nicholas Birde, James Weston, John Feckenam, George
Bagshawe, Walter Whitwicke, Thomas Tewe, John Walkelate,
George Holmes, Humfrey Madocke, John Burnes, Will'm
Baylie, John Byrde, Henry Hanson, Roger Perkins, John
Lovate, Rob'te Dale, Symon Byddulle, John Anrpe, Kenelmus
Hawkes, Richard Burwaye, Richard Otteley, and James
Cruchley. Moreover Thomas Edgerton esqr Solliciter to the
Queene's Matlc was then Recorder, and Richarde Broughton
was Stewerde of the libertyes of the same Cittye.
The Com'on Seale of the Burgh of Newcastle under Lyne.
[Here is a trick of the 8eal.~\
The Towne and Burgh of Newcastle under Lyne is antyently
encorporated by Kinge H. 3, Kinge of Ingland an0 reg' sui 19
by the name of Mayor and Burgeses ; wherof was mayor at the
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 29
tyme of this present Survey and visitac'on Raulph Edgerton,
esqr. And these followinge were at that tyme the Aldermen
there, viz., Sr Eaulph Edgerton, Knight, Raulph Sneyd, esqr,
.Richard Pateson, Thomas Cleyton, Randoll Baginhould,
Thomas Dale, and Edward Brette, esquiers.
The doubtful arms of Staffordshire.
[The ensuing list does not appear in the Stukeley MS. nor
in the (presumed) Original, but it is given in Lord Hatherton's
MS. and several other copies of the Visitation. It no doubt
contains those coats which were disallowed or " respited" by
Glover. I here print it from the Harl. MS. 1570, where, as
the Harleian Catalogue has it, the arms are " hastily tricked
within printed escocheons." It is there headed, "Here be-
ginneth the doubtfull Armes of Staffordshire."]
John Brettayne, of Seres- Azure, a bend between six mul-
cott and Tamworth. lets or.
Raufe Aderley, of Coton. Argent, on a bend azure three
lozenges or, each charged with
a pheon gules.
John Skevington, of Fysh- Argent, three bull's heads erased
erwyke. sable.
Sir John Bowes, of Elford. Ermine, three bows strung in
pale gules, in the dexter chief
a fleur-de-lis ....
*Sir Symond Weston, of Ermine, on a chief azure five
Lichfield. bezants, a martlet gules for
difference.
* An evident interpolation, for Sir Simon was not a knight in 1583, and his
father, James Weston, was then living. The latter made his will in 1589, and
therein names his son James, then under twenty-four years of age, and his son and
heir Simon. It may he here mentioned that the elaborate pedigree of Weston
printed in Harwood's " Erdeswiek " was fabricated in 1632 for Eichard, Lord
Weston, then Lord Treasurer of England. (Vide Mr. Chester- Waters's " Memoirs
of the Chesters of Chicheley.") It should be added that Sir Simon does not appear
in the lists of doubtful coats given in Lord Hatherton's MS. and in the Harl.
MSS. 1077, 1173.
30
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
"^Edmund James, of Wor-
cestershire.
Humfrey Wolverston, of
Stotfeild.
Huinf rey Everard, of Whit-
tin gton.
Kaufe Mynors, of Utoxeter.
Peter Eoos, of Swynes-
head (extra Comitat.).
Ednmnd Bradock, of Ad-
baston.
Edward Manwaring, of
Whitmore.
Edward Brett, of Kele.
Azure, on a chevron between
three lions passant guard ant
or, as many escallops sable.
Crest: A cubit arm vested
bendy sinister or and azure,
holding in the hand proper a
hawk's lure gules, garnished,
etc., gold.
Sable, a fesse wavy between three
wolf's heads erased or. Crest :
Under a tree a wolf statant,
all proper.
Gules, on a fesse between three
estoiles argent, as many pierced
mullets sable.
Gules, a fesse argent between
three plates.
Azure, three water bougets or.
Argent, a greyhound courant
within a border engrailed sable.
Argent, two bars gules, in chief
a mullet for difference.
Argent, on a chevron azure three
bezants, in chief an annulet
Gilbert Astley, of Patis-
hall.
Edmund Blount, of Burton.
Edward Swinerton of Ec-
cleshall.
Azure, a cinquefoil pierced
ermine.
Nebule or and sable, within a
border compone argent and
gules.
Argent, a cross formee flor}r sable,
debruised with a bendlet gules.
* Edmund James was doubtless a member of tbe family seated at Astley and
Eorfield Court in the county of "Worcester, of which a pedigree will be found in
Harl. MS. 6128. Edmund James " of Swinford Regis " was admitted to the Inner
Temple in 1548. One Edmund James was steward of the manor of Himley temp.
Elizabeth ; his son, Walter James of Enville, gent., was one of the witnesses
examined in an Exchequer suit relating to lands in Himley a0 1587, and was then
" aged 43 or thereabouts."
<PeUtigm0.
( 33 )
gttoerleg of Cotoiu
Thomas Adderley of the^Joane, the da. of John
Blackhaghe in the Coun-
tye of Stafford.
Thirkell of Smallwood
in Com. Stafforde.
Joane, eldest, mar.
to Rob'te Smithe
of Brandston.
Elizabeth, mar.
to Will'm
Peverell.
Alice, mar. to John Cogniers
de Com. Ebor.
I
Thomas
Adderley,
eldest sonne,
mar. Joane,
da. of Rob't
Warner.
John Adderley,
second sonne,
mar. Elene, the
widdowe of one
Gilbert.
Humfrey Adderley,
Groome of the Robes
to the Queene's
Mat!e ; mar. first da.
of North de Com.
Notts, after da. of
Capell.
George
Adderley,
5 sonne,
died in
Fraunce,
sans
yssue.
Margare, the da.-
of Thomas Bagot
of Blithefelde,
Esqr ; first wife.
-Raulf Adderley of Cotton inr
the County of Stafford, Esqr,
Justice of Peace ; nowe liv-
inge in anno 1583.
:Phelice, da. of Henry
Milwarde in Com.
Derby ; second wife.
Richard Adder- Will'm, eldeste Thomas, 2 sonne. Elene, eldest da.
ley, eldeste sonne by the — —
sonne, tetatis seconde wife, Raulf, 3 sonne. Dorothe, 2 da.
26 annor' anno setat. 23 an'or' — —
1583. 1583. John, 4 sonne. Grace, 3 da.
Walter, 5 sonne. Mary, 4 da.
George, 6 sonne.
R. Adderley.
34 TIIE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
artlatfter of itongtrou.
Arms. — Ermine, a cross-low bent gules.
A trick of a seal containing the same arms on a circular shield, and
an ostrich feather encircled by a ducal coronet for crest. Legend :
" Seel Edmond Arbalastier." Over it : " Taken after an old seale
in brasse."
Thomas Arblaster.=F
Richarde Arblaster.=f Maulde, syster of Sr Lewis Bagotte, Knighte.
Humfrey Arblaster.=j=Catherin, da. of Thomas Laynham of Staff ord-
j sheire.
Thomas Arblaster of Longdon in=p. ... da. of ... .
Com. Stafford.
Martyn.
George Arblaster=p. . . . John Arblaster, Jane Arblaster, mar.
of Longdon, nowe
livinge, 1583.
2 sonne. to Will'm Hollande
— of Caudwall in Com.
Michaell Arblaster, Derb.
3 sonne.
Thomas Arblaster, onely sonne and heire.
Franncis, mar. to Eic. Callangwoode of Alice, unmarried.
Caudwall in Com. Derb.
Thomas Arblaster.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFOKDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
35
Qtibtribmzt of aa&enlmratt.*
John Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst^ Jane, d. of . .
in the County of Staff. Twyford.
John Ashenhurst, eldest sonne, mar. Margery,=p Will'm, 2 sonne,
d. of . . . . Collyer of ... . sans yssue.
Thomas, 2 sonne.
Laurence, 3 sonne.
Rauf, 4 sonne.
Anne, mar. to
Thomas Sher-
ard of Bag-
enall in Com.
Staff.
Johane, mar.
to George
Hill of Mes-
ham in Com.
Derby.
Joyce Miller,=j=John Ashenhurst=p Alice, d. of John:
da. of John
Miller al's
Ferae ; first
wyf.
of Ashenhurst in
Com. Staff., now
lyving 1583.
Belott de Morton
in Com. Cestr. ; 2
wyf.
Grace, first
maryed to John
Manyfold, after
to Arthur Many-
fold.
: Catherine, sister
to Philip Okover
of Okover.
Thomas, sans yssue. John, sans yssue.
Rauf Ashenhurst of Ashen- John, Dorothe, mar.
hurst, mar. Elizabeth, d. sans toJohnRothe-
& heire of Will'm Beard yssue. wall of Leeke
of Beard in Com. Derby. in Com. Staff.
Margaret, mar.
to Nicholas
Rayner of Duf-
feld in Com.
Derby.
Elizabeth, mar. to Thomas
Lownes of Redearth in
Com. Staff.
|4 |5
Anne, un- Joyce, mar. to Arthur
maryed. Bulkelegh of Stanlo in
Com. Staff.
John Asshenhuest.
* In the presumed original (Queen's College MS.) this pedigree is crossed out;
and, as will have been seen (ante, p. 15), John Ashenhurst of Ashenhurst was
publicly disclaimed at Uttoxeter. This John died Oct. 20, 1597, and has a brass in
Leek Church, whereon are represented the following arms : Or, a cockatrice, the
tail terminating in a serpent's head and nowed sable, the comb, wattles, and head
gules, in the beak a sprig vert. Crest : A cockatrice as in the arms. According to
the Harl. MS. 1570, these bearings were granted by Dethick, Garter, in 1603,
perhaps for the special purpose of being placed on this monument. There is a
drawing of the brass in Mr. Sleigh's "History of Leek," facing p. 73.
d2
36
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
asstltu of patrtfitifl.
Thomas de Astley,=f Elizabetha, filia Thomas de Bello-
D'n's de Astley. campo, Comitis Warwici.
Will'm's de Astley ,=j=Catherina, soror
D'n's de Astley, Baronis de Wil-
miles. loughby.
Thomas Astley,=j=Elizabetha, filia
miles, filius et hasres Ric'di
Thomas, Ar.
sed quaere ?*
Harecourt,
militis.
Johanna, unica filia et Thomas1
hasres, ux. s'c'da Regi- Astley,
naldi D'ni Grey de Ar.
Ruthin. =p
: Johanna,
filia
Thomas
Greseley,
militis.
Johannes de Aste--
ley, inclitissimi
ordinis Equestris
Garterij, militis.
Thomas Astley de Pates--
hill in Com. Stafi". ; se-
pultus apud Wolver-
hampton an0 1 R. 8.
Margareta, filia
Will'm's de
Joh'es de
Thomas Butler,
Astley.
Astley, de
militis, et Eliza-
—
collatus.
beths uxoris
Hugo de
ejus.
Astley.
Will'm's Astley,
sine prole.
Ricardus Astley~Johanna, filia Joh'is Oteley de
de Patteshill.
Piehford in Com. Salop, et suas
cuiijugis, filias Blount.
Thomas de-
Astley de
Pateshill.
:Maria, filia et una hasredum
Gilberti Talbot de Grafton,
militis.
Jana, uxor Thomas Bagot
de Blithfeild. =f=
I
Ricardus Bajrott.
Gilbertus Astley de"
Pateshill in Com.
Staff., Ar., modo
sup'stes in an0
1583.
-Dorothea, filia Thomas Joh'es
Giflard de Chillinton Astley.
in Com. Stat'., Ar.
Elizabetha, nnpta
Joh'i Wrotesley
de Wrotesley in
Com. Staf.
Thomas Astley ,=j=Margeria, filia Waited Aston de
p'mogenitus. * Ticksall in Com. Stafford, militis.
Walterus Astley.
* The doubt here thrown upon the parentage of Sir Thomas Astley is curious,
for Bugdale and all the genealogists agree in making him second son of Thomas by
Elizabeth Beauchamp, daughter of Guy (not Thomas as above), Earl of Warwick.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
37
3teton of Cfyan*
Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Argent, a f esse, and in chief three lozenges sable.
[Aston.] 2. Or, a cross patonce gules. [Freville.] 3. Bendy
or and azure. [Montfort.] 4. Gules, two bars gemelles argent,
over all a bendlet of the last. [Welsh.] 5. Sable, on a chevron
argent between three lion's heads erased or, as many cinquefoils of
the field. [Staunton.] 6. Or, three bends gules. [Byron.]
Crest. — A bull's head couped or, the horns argent, tipped sable. (A
second Crest is given in Lord Hatherton's MS., viz., A chapeau,
issuant therefrom on either side a bulVs horn proper.)
Eogerus de Aston, 35 E. 3.=
Thomas de Aston, filius et hseres.
Johanna; uxor=Rogerus* Aston,=pJocosa, filia et cohaeres
s'c'da.
miles, obijt
1447
Baldwini Frevill, militis ;
uxor p'ma.
Jane, ux. Roger
Draycott. Haywood et de Parkhall
(HathertonMS.) in Com. Stafford.
Robertus Aston, miles, de=j=Johanna, soror Will'mi
Brereton, militis.
Isabella, uxor Ricardi:
Bagot de Blithefeld.
Johannes Bas;ot.=F
Ludovicus Bagot, miles.=p
Thomas Bas;ot.=T=
Ricardus Bagot,
Johannes-
Aston,
obijt
1483.
:Elizabetha,
filia Johan-
nis Delves,
militis.
Parnell, ux.
Rich. Bydulfe.
(Hatherton
MS.)
Ricardus
Aston, 2.
Robertus Aston,
3 filius.
* According to Lord Hatherton's MS., this Roger was the son of Thomas de
Aston, Kt., by Elizabeth, sister and coheir of Eeginald Lee, which Thomas was son
of Roger, and grandson of another Roger de Aston, living 19 E. 1, and 35 E. 3.
38
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIKE, A.D. 1583.
A|
Johannes Byron de Clayton=j=Margeria, filia Johannis
in Com. Lane, miles. Boothe de Barton.
Nicholaus Byron, Ricardus Byron, s'e'd's filius, Elena, nupta
miles. pater Margerise Staunton. Waltero Blount.
Thomas Welshe de Onlep=pMargeria Staunton, Johanna, uxor Will'ini
in Com. Leycestria. haeres. Basset de Blore.
Elena, uxor:
prima, filia
et una
haeredu'.
Thomas, miles.^
Will'm's Lit-=j=Maria, filia Whit- Elizabetha,uxorp'ma
tleton, miles
ington; uxors'e'da. Rad'i Shirley, militis.
Johannes Anna, nupta Thoinaa Pulteney, militi.
Littleton. =p
Franciscus Pulteney.
Eliz.y ux. Bassett Isabella, nupta Johannes Aston=pJohanna, filia
of Blore. Humfrido de Tycksall,
(Hatherton MS.) Okeover de miles, obijt
Okeover. 1523.
et hseres, alibi
Elena.
Will'm's
Aston,
s'e'd's
filius.
Elena, Isabella.
Una istarum
nupta fuit Thomse
Curzon de Crox-
hallinCom.Derb.
Jana, filia Thoma3=j=Edwardus= Maria,
Bowles de Castro
de Penhow in
Southwallia,
militis, in Com.
Carmarden.
Maria, nupta
Simoni Hare-
court de
Staunton.
Katherina, nupta
Will'mo Gresley
de Colton, militi.
Aston de filia
Tycksall, Henrici
miles, Vernon,
obijt militis.
1568.
Anna. Francisca, nupta Roberto
Nedeham de Schenton in
Com. Salop.
B
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
39
|B
| I I _
Walterus Aston=f=Elizabetha, filia Leonardus Anthonms Aston de
de Tycksall,
miles, modo
superstes, anno
1583.
Jacobi, ac soror Aston,
Ricardi Leve- duxit re-
son, militis. lictam
Creswall.
Parkhall in Com. Staff.,
duxit relictam Borows*
de Com. Lincoln.
Maria, filia=pEdwardus=pAnna, filia Robertus Aston, Ricardus
Joh'is
Spenser,
militis ;
uxor p'ma
Aston,
Ar.
Thomse s'c'd's filius,
Lucy de duxit filiam
Com.Warr., Dab/son.
militis.
Aston, 3
filius, duxit
relictam
Clerke.
Filius, sine p'le.
Filiae duas.
Ill I M |3
Will'm's, 4 filius. Jana, nupta Margeria, nupta Eleonora, nupta
— Will'mo Thornse filio Peytoe de
Devereux, 5 filius. Crumpton primogenito Chesterton in
— de Stone in Gilberti Astley Com. Warw.
Hastingus, 6 filius. Com. Staff, de Patishill in
Com. Staff.
|4 |5 6 |
Maria. Elizabetha, promissa Basilio Feldinge Catherina.
de Neuenham in Com. Warw.
iSagot of JSlttfjfim
Anns.— Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a chevron gules letween three
martlets sable. [Bagot.] 2. Or, a lion rampant, doubled tailed
gales. [Blithfield.j] 3. Per pale dancettee argent and sable.
[Malory.]
Crest. — In a ducal coronet or, a goafs head argent, horned gold.
Rad'phus Bagott, miles, de Bagotts Bromeley.
Joh'es Bagot, miles.=f=Beatrix, filia Joh'is Villiers, militis.
A|
* Relict of Henry Borough of Stowe in Lincolnshire, by whom he had issue,
Edward, Walter, and John, of whom Edward had " a dau.," and Walter had a son
of his own name. (Hatherton MS.)
t Sic in Stukeley MS., but 2 is Malory, and 3 Blithjield,
40
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Kniveton port g. un
cheveron varri ar. et sa.
Port p'ti p' pale sa. et g.
un lyon rampt. argent.
Elizabetha,
nupta Kni-
veton.
R'c'dus=plsabella, filia
Bagot,
Ar.
Rob'ti As-
ton, militis.
Jana, uxor Joh'is
Curson, filii et
haeredis Joh'is
Curson.
Margareta,
uxor Hen.
Bradborne,
postea ux.
Davenport.
Joh'es Bagot, Ar.,=f=Isabella, filia
obijt 24 Junii, Johannis Curson
1480. de Essex.
Curson de Essex port ar.
sur un fesse g. 3 testes
dazur (sic) arg. couple.
Matildis, ux. Ric'di
Arblaster, filii et
haer. Tho. Arblaster.
Aleonora, ux. Rob'ti
Cawardin, fil. et
haer. Thomas.
I
Isabell, ux.
WiU' Dun-
holme, filii
et hasredis
Wili'mi.
Anna, uxor
Rob'ti
Kniveton,
filii et
haeredis
Joh'is.
Anna, uxor ter-=pLodovicus Bagot, miles pro=Margareta, ux.=Uxor 5,
tia, filia Nicholai
Montgomery,
militis.
Corpore Regis H. 7. Obiit 4, filia Ric. relicta.
31 Maii 1534. Vernon
Emma, uxor ejus p'ma,
filia Kniveton.=i=
Johannes Bagot, duxit Jana, ux. Elena, Elizabetha,
filiam Thomas Boteler Jacobi uxor ux. Georgii
de Beausey, mil., et Thirkeld. Tho. Est de
obiit sine exitu. Meverell. Yardley.
.... filia
nupta
Bydolph
deEccles-
haU.
Edwardus Stephanus Bagot, 3 filius, duxit Thomas^Jana, filia
Bagot, Anna', filiam Thomae Josceline
2 filius. de Com. Essex, militis.
Bagot,
Ar.
Jana, nupta Brereton, filio Uriani Brereton, militis.
Ric'di Astley
de Pateshill.
Joh'es Ricardus Bagot de:
Bagot, Blithfield in Com.
2 filius. Staff., Ar., modo
superstes an0 1583.
u
-Maria, filia Wili'mi
Saunders de Welford
in Com. North'pt'.
Margareta, ux.
Radulphi
Adderley, Ar.
w^
&M
$agcit
Harry Soane. Sembiit Engrave? J'r London
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
41
B|
Walterus Bagot,
p'mogenitus
filius, natus
24 Octob. 1557.
Anthonius Bagot,
natus 20 No. 1558.
Margareta.
Anna, nupta
Ric'do Broughton,
30 Julii 1577.
Ipsa nata fait
xj Maij 1555.
Dorothea.
Letecia.
Richard Bagot.
JSagStmto of Jfartoell
Arms. — Or, a bugle horn sable, stringed vert, between three roses gules.
Nicholas Bagshawe of Abney in Com. Derbye.=f=
Nicholas Bagshawe=i=. ... da. of Browne of
of Abneye.
Chapell in Frithe.
Nicholas Bagshawe=pElizabeth, da. of Humfrey Ruggeley
of Abney. of Longdon in Com. Staff.
Nicholas Bagshawe=pJoane, da.
of Abney in Com. of Rob'te
Derby, nowe livinge, Linaker.
and of Farwell in
Com. Staff., 1583.
Edwarde, 2 sonne,
mar.
Will'm, 3 sonne.
Osmonde, 4 sonne.
Rob'te 5.
Thomas,
6 sonne.
Elizabeth, eldeste da.,
getat. 7 an'or' 1583.
Nazarethe,
2 da.
Nicholas Bagshaw.
42
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Co&ntajje anti JSaitram ot BarlaStoit
EX VETERE QUODAM SCRIPTO IN PARGAMEN' 14 SEPTEMBRIS 32 H. 8.
[Three small escutcheons: 1, on a chevron five roundles; 2, two bars
and a canton ; 3, two barulets, between in chief a lion passant to
the sinister, and in base a chevron. A circular seal, thereon a
shield charged with a saltire engrailed, on the saltire in the dexter
chief a pheon, in the centre of the saltire an inescutcheon
charged with a chevron. Over : " S. Bertram de Lewin."
" This seale in brasse shewed by George Bartram of Barleston
at Stone the 7 of August 1583." See Plate.]
Hughe Cokenage, called Lorde of
Cokenage, and Alice his wife.
David of Cokenage
and Hawise his
wife.
Peter of Cokenage
and Alice his wife.
This Davy gave to Raulf his
brother a mess' place & oxe-
gon of landes in fee for ever
in Cokenage. Alsoe this Davy
gave to Will'm Bertram a
mess' and an oxegon of
Landes in the same Cokenage
in fee for ever.
Raulf of Coken-
age and Isabell
his wife.
John of Coken-
age and Alice
his wife.
Geffry of Cokenage and
Isabell his wife.
Joane of Cokenage was mar. to John
the sonne of Will'm Bartram.
Will'm of Cokenage and
Alice his wife.
Henry Bertram and
Phillippa his wife.
John.
Will'm of Cokenage
and Joane his wife.
This Will'm entayl-
ed all his landes to
John his sonne and
his wife, pro defec'
rem' Eve filia.
Rob te, 2 sonne,
entred into all
the land that
should be Eve's,
the da. & heire
of Will'm.
Richarde.
Will'm
Bertram
and Eve
his wife.
Nicholas.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
43
John of Eve, sister and heire of John, was wedded to John of
Cokenage the Hall of Bucknall, to the wch mariage Will'm her
and his father gave all his mess', landes, and ten' in Bloreton
wife Mar- in fee tayle ; the wch John and Eve had noe yssue.
gery, dyed The sayde Eve toke to her husband Roger Wolriche ;
sans yssue. the sayde Roger and Eve made estat by fine at Westmr
of all the mess', landes, and rentes in Bloreton and
Cokenage (the wch was Eve's by guifte and by descente
of her father) to twoe prests called John Globard and
Richard Ford ; the w* John Globarde was sonne to
Thomas Globard ; the wch Thomas had yssue Eve his
da.; the wch Eve was wedded to Will'm Bertram,
father of John Bartram, the father of Hughe that was
righte heire by descente of bloud and by fine.
John Bertram and Joane his wife.:
Hughe Bertram, that was right heire to all the Landes that were Will'm
Bartram's, and alsoe of Ralf of Cokenage, and alsoe for defaulte of
yssue of Davy Cokenage, the elder brother, and all the progeny that came
of him, the sayde Hughe is heire to all the Landes, rentes, and services.
The sayde Hughe Bertram, Agnes & Joane his wives, had yssue
John Bertram and=j=
Hellene his wife.
Will'm. Richarde. Hughe.
Thomas. James. Rob'te.
Anne, 1 wife, da. of . . . .=pJohn Bertram,1
Weste
Ar.
de Com. Warw.,
Agnes and Anne
his 2 wives.
Agnes, 2 wife, da of
James Lawton of
Churchlawton.
John Bertram, mar. War-=j=
burghe, da. of James
Lawton.
Thomas 2.
Hughe 3.
James. Edwarde.
Randall.
George Bartram of Barleston and=f=Margaret, sister to Sr Ralf & Sr
Cokenage, livinge 1583. Nich. Baginholde.
Will'm Bartram,=j=Elizabeth, da. of John Legh George. Warburghe.
eldest sonne. of the Ridge. —
Grace.
Margarette, only da,
44 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
3Sa$3ett, JHegnell, etc,
Rob'tus Warde.
Johanna, nupta Hugoni Meignill, seniori.
Giles Meynill.=
Hugo Meynill. Cecilia.
Ricardus Meynill.1
I
Hugo Meynill.=p
1
Joane,
Reignalde=j
=Thomasin.:
= Hughe
mar. to
Dedike
Erdiswike,
....
veil
2 husband.
Clinton.
Dethicke,
first
husbande.
Joane, mar. to . .
Tikill al's Tikhill.
I I
Margaret, Alice, mar.
mar. to to ... .
John Aston ;
Dedike died s.p.
veil Roger
Dethike.
Margaret, mar. to (Sic.)
Raulin Basset.
John Dethike
al's Thomas.
Walter Tikill.
Will'm Basset.
Will'm Dethike.
Will'm Basset.
Thomas Dethike.
Thomas Tykhill.
Memorandum that the aforesayde Hugh Meynill was heire unto Warde and
to Maynell, and was seased of the mannors of Langley, Kingley, Newhall, and
Hartishorne Staunton.
Wherof Joane had to her p'te Staunton-Harolde, Tyssington, & Upton, wth
other landes. Thomasin had to her p'te Langley, Kingley, wth the advouson of the
Church. And Margaret had to her parte Newhall, Hartshorne, wth the advouson
Staunton Warde.
Memorand., that I, Phillip Dedike, a man of fourscore yeares of age & more,
Witnesseth and saith that Sr Hugh Maynell, Knight, had iiij daughters, of wch 4
daughters Sr Will'm Dedike, at that tyme thresorer of England, had the custodye,
and maryed one of them to Aston, and another to Clinton, and the other twoe were
wedded to his 2 sonnes Reignolde and Roger. Item, the da. wch Aston maryed died
wthout yssue of her hody, and the lande of the sayde Sr Hugh Maynell was parted
hetwixte the sayde sisters. And the sayd Reignold Dedike wedded Thomasin, and
had by her twoe daughters, Margaret & Joane, and alter the death of the sayde
Reignolde, one Hughe Erdeswike wedded the same Thomasyne, and had noe yssuo
by her. Margaret Raulin Basset wedded, and had by her yssue Will'm, father to
Will'm that nowe is, and Joane one Tykill wedded.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
45
asasteett of Move antr ffimte.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Argent, three piles gules, on a canton of the first a
griffin segreant sable. [Bassett.J 2. Gules, a cross ermine.
[Beke.] 3. Vaire argent and sable. [Meynell.] 4. Sable, a
lion rampant argent. [Everdon.] 5. Argent, three bench gules.
[Byron.] 6. Argent, a bend azure charged with three annulets
or, in the sinister chief a cross-crosslet fitchee of the second.
[Clayton.]
Crest. — In a ducal coronet or, a boar's head gules.
A second shield as above, except that between Beke and
Meynell is inserted another quartering, viz., (Argent), a fesse
vaire (or and gules) between three water bougets (sable).
[Dethicke.]
Motto. — En esperance d 'avoir.
Will'm Bassett of=pElizabeth, da. of Thomas-
Blore and Grendon
in Com. Staff., Esqr,
and of Langley in
Com. Derb.
Meverell of Throwley,
Esqr
:Henry Cokayne,
2 husbande.
Margaret, mar. to John Woodson of
Litlehales in Com. Salop.
Thomas
Bassett,
2 sonne,
mar. da.
of
Frauncis
Bassett.
Anne, daughter~Sr Will'm Bassett=Elenor,
of Sr Thomas
Cokayne of
Ashburne in
Com. Derby,
Kuio-hte.
Edw. Bassett of Hintes, Divers
mar. da. of ... . Chet- daughters,
winde of ... .
of Blore, Kl, mar. 3 wife,
to his 2 w. Isabell, da. of
the widowe of Jo
Bradborne, da. & Littleton,
coheire of Richard wid. of
of Ridware. Cotes.
Maulde, mar. to Ba. Okover
of Okover in Com. Staff., Esqr.
Will'm=j=Elizabeth, da. Thomas Bassett, Frauncis, Margarett,
Bassett
of Blore
and of
Langley,
Esqr.
of Sr Anthony
Fitzherbert of
Norbury,
Knight.
2 sonne, mar.
Elene, da. of ... .
Cotes of Wood-
cott in Com.
Salop. =f
3 sonne,
died sans
yssue.
mar. to Rich.
Copwood of
Tatridge in
Com. Her-
ford.
Will'm Bassett of Blore in Com.
Staff., and of Langley in Com.
Derby, Esqr; nowe livinge, 1583.
Will'm Bassett of Fole in Dorothe.
Com. Staff. ; nowe livinge,
1583.
Will'm Bassett.
46
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583,
iSas&ctt anU (Jfjjerton.
John Bassett de Chedley, 6 Ed. 2.=f
Johes Bassett de Chedley, miles, =pJohanna, filia et
44 Ed. 3, 6 H. 4. hares
Edmundus Rad'ph's Basset=j=Matildis, filia Reginaldus=rThomasina,
Basset, de Nuplace, et
obijt sine postea de Ched-
p'le 1429, ley, 9 H. 4.
8 H. 6.
et heeres Dethike, 3
Thomas Beke f. Dethike.
et Alicias,
p'mas uxoris,
suas quas obijt
9H. 5.
filia et una
hteredum
Hugonis de
Meynill.
Rad'ph's Bassett de=pMargareta, filia et sola=Nicholaus Montgomery,
Chedley, et de Blore,
et Grendon, 30 H. 6
hasres Regi. Dethike, filius Nich. Montgomery,
quse obijt 1466. militis; 2 mar.
Will'm's Bassett de=p.
Chedley, Blore, et
Grendon, 34 H. 6,
et de Langley.
Cecilia, uxor Hugonis Johannes Biron,
Erdeswike, filii Hen. miles.
Ricardus Biron.=pLucia.
I
Will'm's Basset, Viscomes=p Johanna, filia et co- Margeria, uxor Thomas
Stafford in an'o 6 E. 4,
sup'stes 5 H. 7, senior.
hseres Ric. Biron, "Welshe de Onlep in
filii Joh'is Biron, Com. Leic.
militis.
Will'm's Basset, junior,=j=Elizabetha, filia Thomae=HenricusCokayn,
21 H. 7, de Blore et
de Langley in Com.
Derb.
Meverell de Throwley, 2 maritus.
junioris, Ar.
Will'm's Bassett de Blore,=f=Anna, filia Thomas Cokayn
Grendon, et Langley, miles, de Ashburne, militis.
Will'm's Basset de=j=Elizabetha, filia Anthonij Fitzherbert
Blore. de Norbery, militis.
Will'm's Basset, modo superstes, 1583.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
47
u
I 22 E. 4.
Johannes Basset, primo- Rad's=pElena, filia Nicholaus Basset, 3
genitus filius, duxit Elizab., Basset,
filiam Joh'is Aston, militis, 2 filius.
et obiit sine exitu.
Hugonis filius, duxitElenam,
Eggerton filia' Nic. Mont-
de Wrin- gomery, militis, et
hill, Ar. obiit s.p.
Margareta, filia et hasres, nupta Rad'o Egerton de Ridley in
Com. Cestria3. =f
Richardus Egerton de Ridley, miles.
Rad .'us Egerton de Ridley, nunc 1583.
iSa^^ctt tit <#>apccott, C&eatrfe, JSlore, Gmtiion,
et dnetrhonmgin
(Barry nebulee of
six argent and
sable ; in trick.)
Will'm's Bassett, cui Osbertus Basewinus
dedit manerium de Chedle in Com. Staff.,
t'pe Regis H. 2 ; quo tempore ipse Os-
bertus tenuit in eodem Com. tria feoda
militaria de D'no Rob' to de Stafford, ut
apparet in libro rubeo Scaccarij.
Rad's Basset, junior, filius.:
(Arms as above, with a label
gules.)
Symon Basset, D'n's de:
Chedley.
(Nebule argent & sable.)
Rad's, filius Rad.
Basset, cui Rad's
Basset de Sap-
cote dedit 62
acras terras in
Cheddle, tenend'
de prasd'c'o Rad'o
de Sapcote, p'
finem levat' an'o
56 H. 3. ==
Rob'tus Basset,:
tenuit 20 libra-
tas terras de
rege in capite
in Com. Nott.
et Derb., an0
38 H. 3, 1253.
Rad's Basset de Sape-
cote, D'n's de Chedley,
per finem levat' an0 56
H. 3, dedit terras in
Chedle, Rad'o filio Radi'
Basset ; fait sumonitus
inter Barones ad Parlia-
mentu', a0 49 H. 3.
48 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A B I
Will'm's Basset de Joh'es Basset, sup'stes t'pe E. . .=y=Uxorejus
Com. .N Ott., t pe (Qr> 3 piies gules, a canton barry
Phi' Markham, nebule arg. & sable.)
vie' Not., miles.
filia
Liseux.
Rob'tus Basset, sup'stes 1359. Will'm's Basset, sup'stes 1359.
Ricardus Basset, nepos Will'mi, 1359, 33 E. 3.
I I
Rad's Bassett, d'n's de Parkhall de Chedley, dat terras Joh'es
Rad'o filio suo in an'o xi E. 2. Bassett.
Rad's Basset de Parkhall
de Chedley, sup'stes an0
6 E. 3.
Joh'es, fllius Joh'is Bassett,-
sup'stes an0 6 E. 2.
(Barry nebule argent & sable
bezante.)
. . . .=j= Joh'es Bassett de Chedley, miles, sup'stes=j=Johanna, filia et
an'o 44 E. 3, et an'o 6 H. 4.
(Or, 3 piles gules, on a canton argent a
griffin segreant sable.)
has res Henrici de
Braylesford,
militis.
Edmundus Basset, Radulphus Basset de=pMatildis
obiit sine p'le 8 Newplace, et postea
H. 6. de Chedley.
de Beke.
Thomas:
Bassett.
Rad's Basset de Chedley et de=
Blore, 30 H. 6.
I
Will'm's.=F
Will'm's.;
Will'm's.=F
Johanna, uxor Rad'i=j=
Shirley. |
I
Rad's.=p
Joh'es.
Rad's.
Will'm's.=
Wffl'm's.=F
Fran(iiscus.=j=
!
Joh'es.=p
Will'm's Basset de Blore, 1583, Georgius Shirley, nunc 1583. d
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
49
D'n's Rad's Basset de Sapecote,
sup'stes an'o 2-4 E. 1 et 21 E. 1,
tenuit Languet et Chedley 21 E. 1.
Elizab. Colvill uxor ejus.
Rob t's Bassett, cui pater dedit
2 acras terras in Depdale anno
54 H. 4 (sic).
(Nebule arg. & sa., a label gu.)
D'n's Egidius=pAlicia, Symon Basset, d'n's^Isabelk^quassup'vivit
de Estlegh.
uxor. de Sapecote et de
Chedley, sup'stes an'o
20 E. 2, et mortuus
ante ami' 2 E. 3.
maritum an'o 2 E. 3,
filia d'ni WiU'mi le
Botteller de Wemme.
Sibilla,n=Rad's Basset=j=Alicia, uxor 2, filia et haeres Edmimdus
filia
Egidij
Astley,
militis,
ux. 1.
de Sapecote,
D'n's de
Chedley.
Inq. post
mortem 2
R. 2.
Joh'is de Dry by, relicta Basset de
Rob'ti Tochet, militis. Sapecote,
(A chevron between 9 billets, ^UP'StoeS "??.
5 above & 4 below. " S. o Jli. d, obijt
Alicise ux. Rad. Basset, S.p.
militis, 1377.")
Alicia, uxor Rob'ti Moton de Elizabetha, uxor Ricardi Grey de
Pekulton, militis, astat. 30 Codnore, aetat. 17 annor' an0 2 R. 2.
an'or' 2 R. 2. =F =F
Thomas.=p Henricns, D'n's Grey. Elizabetha, ux. Joh'is Zouche.
Rob tus.
Henricus, ultimus D'n's Grey de Codnore.
Thomas Basset de Fledbnrgh=pMargeria, filia WiU'mi
in Com. Notts. Meringe.
Ricardus=pElizabetha, Will'm's Basset=p. .
Basset,
miles.
filia Joh'is de Muskham.
Denham.
Catherina, ux. Thomas
Sutton de Aram,
militis.
Joh'es=p. . . . filia D'ni
Basset.
Burgh.
.... uxor Catherina, ux. Henrietta1
Thomae Guidonis Fair- Sutton.
Powtrell. fax.
Edwardus Basset de Fledburgh, 1569.
Will'm's Sutton.
E
50 THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
fiittlUljpi) Of IStOtlUlpfi.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and±. Vert, an eagle displayed argent. [Biddulph.]
2. Argent, a chevron romjm between three crosses bottonee fitchee
sable. [Greentvay.] 3. Sable, a saltire engrailed or. [Salway.]
Crest. — A wolf sejant regardant argent, vulned in the shoulder gules.
Henry Bydulf of Over Bydulf=pEirmie, daughter
in the County of Staff.
of
Thomas, sonne and heire of Henry Bydulf.
Roger Bydulf,* sonne of Thoinas.=p Randoll Bydulf, 2 sonne.
Roger Bydulf, sonne of Roger .=p Will'm Bydulf, yonger sonne.
John Bydulf, sonne=p Agnes, wyf to Richard the sonne of Will'm
of Roger. Brounssone.
Thomas of Overton.=F
Thomas of Overton.=pMargaret.
Robert Bydulf, sonne=pCicely, one of the d. Elene. Alice.
of John.
and heires.
Margaret. Werburga.
Will'm Bydulf, sonne=pElene, cousin and heire of Richard the sonne
of Robert. I of Will'm Grenway.
Sr Robert Aston de=plsabell. Richard Bydulf, sonne of=
Com. Staff., K. Will'm.
Petronill, d. of Sr Robert Aston.n=Richard Bydulf, sonne of Richard.
A I
* " This Eoger Bydulf, Henry Verdun, and Eobert of Knyperslegh, held the
manner of Bydulf of Theobald Lord Verdun of Alveston, in chief, anno 24 E. 1."
Harry ?oane S&raZcUcEnpraver'dc London
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583,
51
A|
Elizabeth, John Bydulf, Joyce, mar. Catherine, wyf to Will'm
mar. to eldest sonne, to Rauf Calverley, to whome she
Humfrey sans yssue. Porter. bare a sonne Richard.
Leffh.
Humfrey Salway of Stanford.=p. . . . daughter of ... . Strelley.
John Salway of Stamford in=pMargery, d. of Hugh Erdeswyke
Com. "Wigorn. of Sandon, Ar.
Richard=f=Margaret Cicely, wyf to Hum- Joyce, first mar. to Will'm
Bydulf of
Bydulf.
Salway. frey Coningesby of Ashby, after to Rauf
Neene Solers, Ar. Wolfesley of Wolfesley,
Knight.
John Bydulf, eldest Francis Bydulf of Bydulf=plsabell, d. of Sr Thomas
sonne, dyed sans in the County of Staff., Giffard of Chillinton in
yssue. Esquire, now lyving the County of Staff.,
1583. Knight.
Richard Bydulf , 1. Ursula, 2. Mary, wyf 3. Dorothe. 4. Catherine.
sonne & heire, sans
setatis 24 annor' yssue.
1583.
to Thomas
Rudyard of
Rudyard in
Com. Staff.
5. Brigide.
Fratjncis Byddulphe.
3$ototS ot dPIfortr, tic.
Elford, m.
Scotteshay, haya.
Haseley, 7 Virg.
Ocle.
Alrewas.
Kinge's Bromley.
V Staff.
Sr Richarde=pMauld, da. & heire of
StafForde. the L. Caumville.
Maulde, da.=pSr Thomas Arderne.
and heire. Inq. 15 R. 2.
A I
e 2
52 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A I
Sr John Arderne, aetat. 21 an'or' 15 R. 2.=f=Maulde, da. of . . . .
Inq. 10 H. 4. j
Maulde, da. and heire, 83 tat. 12 an'or'^Thomas Stanley, Knight,
an0 10 H. 4. | obijt 4 H. 6, 1425.
Maulde.=pSr John Stanley, founder of the C hauntry= Anne. = Elizabeth,
at Elforde anno 1474.
John=p Sr Hmnfrey Margery, mar. A da. mar. A da. mar.
Stanley. [ Stanley. to Willm to Henry to ... .
^ Staunton.* Ferrers. Savage of
Wocestr.
* This is a mistake. Margery Staunton was daughter of John Stanley, son and
heir of Sir John and Maude. (See Shaw under Elford, and also the pedigree of
Brooke of Haselor in this Visitation, post, page 57.) The pedigree given in Lord
Hatherton's MS. is more complete than the above, and includes the issue and
descendants of Sir Humphrey Stanley of Pipe. According to that pedigree, Sir
John Stanley (son of Sir Thomas by the heiress of Arderne) had two sons, John of
Elford, and Humphrey of Pipe. The former had issue (by Elizabeth his wife)
three daughters, his coheiresses, viz. : Maud, married to William Ferrers of Tarn-
worth ; Anne, married to Christopher Savage of Worcestershire ; and Margery,
wife of William Staunton. William Perrers is no doubt an error, for, according to
Dugdale's " Warwickshire," and the Visitation of that county taken in 1619, it was
Sir John Perrers of Tamworth who married Maud Stanley. Sir Humphrey Stanley
" of the Pype " (continues the pedigree) married Ellen, daughter of Sir James Lee
of Stone, and by her had issue three sons and two daughters, viz. : (1) Sir John of
the Pype, who was father, by Margaret his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Gerard, of
two daughters and coheirs, viz., Isabel, married to Walter Moyle of Kent (and
had a daughter and heiress Mary, married to [Erasmus] Heveningham), and
Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Hercy of Grove, Notts; (2) William Stanley, who
married [Margaret], daughter of [Thomas] Comberford, and had issue an only
child Dorothy, married to Christopher Heveningham ; (3) Humphrey Stanley,
" parson of Clyfton." The daughters were, Maud, wife of Thomas Wolverston, and
Alice, wife of Thomas Swinnerton. According to Poster's " Lancashire Pedigrees,"
Sir John Stanley's first wife was Matilda (Maud), by whom he was father of John
of Elford, and Humphrey of Pipe ; his second was Isabella, daughter of Sir Richard
Vernon, by whom he had three daughters, Alice, Isabel, and Catherine ; and his
third wife was Dulcia, daughter of ... . Legh, by whom he had a son lloger.
With regard to the two Heveningham matches named above, it is observable
that, according to the Visitation of Staffordshire taken in 1614 (Harl. MS. 1439),
Erasmus Heveningham had issue by the " da. & heire of .... Moyle " a son
Christopher, who married Dorothy, " da. of .... Stanley," that is to say that
Christopher Heveningham married (if this pedigree be correct) the daughter of his
great-grandfather's brother. This is stated (Erdeswick, p. 41) to be " not impossible
as to dates," and it appears that Isabella Moyle was but thirty-five years older than
her grandson.
There is an able article on the Stanleys, Pipes, etc., of Elford and Clifton-
Campville (signed with the well-known initials " S. P. W."), in the second volume
of the " Topographer." Vide also Shaw, i., 354, where this article is extensively
cpuoted.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 53
Anne, da. and one of the=pSr "VYiU'ni Sniithe,=Isabell,* da. and one of
heires of "Will'm Staunton
& Margery his wife, da.
of John Stanley.
Knight, obi j fc the heires of Sr John
1526. Nevill, Marquis Monta-
ceut, quas obijt 1516.
Margery.=pRicharde Hudleston.=pSybell, da. of ... . Croftes, 2 wife.
Luce, mar. Anne, mar. to John Richard Hudleston, now John and
to John Bowes of Elforde, livinge, mar. the Lady Anthony,
Brooke. nowe livinge, Kl, Waynman of Oxford- sans
=F 1583. =p sheire. yssue.
i T
„ J. i i i
Rob'te. John, s.p. Richard Bowes of=. ... da. and one of the
— Elforde (a foole]). heires of Kebell of Leices-
Jerosme. tersheire.
BotuKer of &mperSleg,
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a lion rampant between three
crosses crosslet fitche'e gules. [Bowyer.] 2. Azure, three spades
or, handles argent. [Knipersley.] 3. Azure, two bars argent,
in chief as many plates. [Venables.]
Crest. — Out of a tower gules, a demi-dragon or, langued of the first.
The Hatherton MS. adds, after Venables, Argent, a fire-pan sable,
enjlamed proper, in the dexter chief a crescent, for Haywood, "but not
in the Vysitatyo'."
* The Genealogists are silent as to this second marriage of Isabel Nevill with
Sir William Smith. Her first husband was Sir William Huddleston, Knt., and he
acquired with her the manor and estate of Sawston in Cambridgeshire, still enjoyed
by the family. By her Sir William was father of the Richard Huddleston, named
above, who married the daughter of his stepfather by his first wife, Anne Staunton,
The marriage of Sir William Smith with Isabel, " unius hseredum Johannis Nevyle,
militis, Marchionis de Monteacuto," is asserted on his monument at Elford, and she
is stated to have died October 12, 1516.
t A pencil note adds " not in Glover " !
54
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Will'ni Venables Thomas Bowyer of=i=Catherin, da. a,nd sole heire
de Bradwall.
Knipersley in the
Com. of Staff.
of Tho. Knipersley of
Knipersley.
Johanna, uxor Elena, uxor Will'm Bowier^p. . . . da. of .
Thomas Bering- Rob'ti de of Knipersley.
ton. Kniperslegh.
Trubshaw.
(Hatherton MS.)
Will'm Bowyer=p. . . . da. of ... . ErdesivyTie
of Knipersley.
of Sandon. (lb.)
Thomas Bowier of Knipersley.=p. . . . da. of Cotton of ... . (lb.)
John Bowier of=f=Elizabeth, da. of ... . Lewson of
Knipersley.
Wolv'hampton in Com. Staff.
1
Will
m Bowier=pKatherin, daughter of S1- Andrewe
of Knipersley.
Br
sareton of Breareton.
Anne, eldest
1
Maulde, mar.
Alice, mar. Elene, mar.
1
Elizab.
da., mar.
to Richarde
to Richard to Randulph
mar. to
to John
Edge of
Sergeant of Rayne of
Will'm
Wedgwoode.
Horton in
Bagenhould Elworth in
Berinton
Com. Staff.
in Com. Com. Cestr.
of Brad-
Staff.
wall.
John Bow-=FElizab. da. of
ier of Kni-
persley.
Jo. Buckenall
of Sidway in
Com. Staff.
Andrewe
Bowier.
Thomas Bowier of=F.
Elene, mar.
to Thomas
Dorington
of Salop.
Broadheath or
Heathouse Grange
in Com. Staff.,
thirde sonne.
daugh-
ter of
Foxe.
Thomas. Elizabeth.
Will'm. Elene.
Alice.
r~
A daughter.
Will'm Bowyer of=p.
Heath house
Grange, nowe
livinere 1583.
da. of
Stone
of
Lon-
don.
;®flfej>s^
Harry Soan&. Heraldic Engraveric London
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
55
U
Will'm Bowier=pAnne da. & George, Thomas Bow-
of Knipersley,
nowe livinge
an0 1583, Esq
coheire of 2 sonne, yer of Stony-
Will 'm of Lon- lowe, 3 son',
Haywood of don. infra dVm
Stonylowe in Madeley.
Com. Staff.
Margaret,
mar. to
W. Forde
of the
Mosse in
Com. Staff.
John Bowier, Francis, 2 sonne. Richard, Anne, 1 da. Ursula, 4.
eldest sonne, — 5 sonne. — —
setatis 26 Thomas, 3 sonne. — Alice, 2. Elizabeth,
an0 1583. — Will'm, — 5.
George, 4 sonne. 6 sonne. Elene, 3.
Will'm Bowyer.
3Srett ot mclc*
Nicholas Brett of Kele in the Countye of Staff.1
Thomas Brette of Dimmesdale in Com. Staff.^. ... da. of Baginholde.
Randolphe Brette of Dimmesdale.=f=Anne, da. of Rob'te Woode of Keele.
1
1
Edward Brette=pCicely, da.
Thomas=j=Margaret,
Nicholas Brette,
of Kele in the
of John
Brette
da. of
third sonne, a
Countie of
Fitton, a
of Wol-
John
minister, mar. &
Staff., Esquier,
younger
stanton,
Badley
hath yssue.
nowe livinge
brother of
seconde
of
1583.
the house
of Gaws-
worthe.
sonne.
Randolphe, Elene, mar. Margarett, Jane, mar. to Thomas
eldest sonne. to Anthony 2 da. Bowthe.
— Brocke of — —
Thomas, 2 sonne. Handley in Mary, 3. Isabell, 2.
— ' Com. Staff. —
Will'm, 3 sonne. Elenore, mar. to John
a Bourne.
* Lord Hatherton's MS. has this note — "No Armes sett downe for Brett.
See " Doubtful Arms," ante, p. 30.
56
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Randolph Brett,=j=Margarette, da. of Tho. Chetwinde
sonne & heire. of Ingestrie, Ar.
Edwardu Raulfe, 2 sonne. Thomas, 4 sonne. Margaret, 1. Mary, 3.
Brette, — — —
eldeste John, 8 sonne. Will'm, 5 sonne. Elene, 2.
sonne.
Edward Brett.
aSroofee of HaSelot\
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a cross engrailed per pale sable
and gules, in the first quarter an annulet of the last. [Brooke.]
2 and 3. Quarterly — i. and iv., Argent, on a bend azure three
buck's heads cabossed or [Stanley] ; n. and in., Or, on a chief
indented azure three plates [Latham], over all a crescent for
difference.
Margery, da. of John Stanley of
Yetell, mar. to Will'm Staunton.
Richarde Brooke of Snelstoir
in Com. Derbye.
Margery,* da. & heire to WiU'in:
Staunton, mar. to Will'm Smith.
Thomas Brooke of ... .:
Richard Hudleston.1
=Margery, da. &
heire.
John Brooket of Haseler in the=pLucy, da. of Rich. Hudleston of
Countye of Staff. Elforde in Com. Staff.
A
* Should be Anne.
t Shaw (i., 388) asserts that this John Brooke was the son of Sir Robert Brooke
of Lapley, Knt., who died 1 Ed. VI. (1547). Harwood, in his notes to Erdeswiek
(edit. 1844, p. 458), repeats Shaw's mistake, and further complicates the pedigree by
ignoring altogether the existence of Robert, who entered and signed this pedigree.
"John Brooke" (he says) "died 1 June, 13 Eliz. (1571), and was succeeded by
William Brooke his son, who died in 1641." The AVilliam Brooke to whom he here
refers was really the " 2 sonne " of Robert and Catherine nee Agarde (James, the
eldest son, having died s.p.), and he succeeded his father (Robert) in 1597. Dates
do not seem to have hud any importance in the eyes of Dr. Harwood. As a matter
of fact, the William Brooke who died in 1641 was, according to his M.I. at Elford,
aged 62 at his death. This would give 1579 as the date of his birth, that is to say
eight years after the death of his assumed father.
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
57
Robert Brooke of=f=Catherin, da. of Clement Agarde Jerome Brooke,
Haseler, nowe liv-
inge 1583
of Foston in the Countie of Derb., 2 sonne.
Ar.
James, eldest sonne, Will'm, 2 Susan, Eleanor, 2. Lucye, 3
ietatis 7 annor' 1583. sonne. eldest. daughter.
Robert Brooke.
ISronfte of ffiasWor, etc
Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Argent, a cross engrailed per pale sable and
gules, in the first quarter an annulet of the last. [Brooke.] 2.
Argent, on a/ess vert between three demi-griffins segreant sable as
many bezants. [Smith.] 3. Quarterly— i. and iv., Argent, on a
betid azure three buck's heads cabossed or ; n. and in., Or, on a
chief indented azure three plates. [Stanley and Latham.] 4.
Gules, three crosses crosslet fitchee and a chief or. [Arderne.]
5. Or, a chevron gules between three martlets sable. [Stafford.]
6. Azure, three lions passant in pale argent. [Camville.]
Ricardus de Stafford,=j=Matildis, filia et una hasredu'
miles, D'n's de Pipe.
Will'mi Camville, militis,
D'n'i de Clifton.
Matildis, filia et haeres Ricardi de Stafford =pThornas Arderne,
militis. miles.
Joh'es Arderne, miles, filius et hseres=i=Matildis, filia ....
Thorn Ee
Pilkina'ton.
Matildis, filia et hasres Joh'is=f=Thomas Stanley, s'd's filius Joh'is Stan-
Arderne de Elford in Com
Stafford, militis
ley, militis, Locitenentis Reg. H. 4 in
Hibernia.
Joh'es Stanley de Elford in Com. Staff., miles,— Matildis, uxor
ter nuptus. p'ma.
58 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORD SHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Aj
I
Joh'es Stanley de Elford, Ar., filius et hasres Joh'is.=F
I
Margeria, filia et coheres Joh'is=j=WiH'm's Staunton, Ar., maritus
Stanley de Elford.
Margeriae de Stanley.
Anna, filia et haeres Will'mi Staunton,=pWiH'm's Smith, miles, D'n's de
et su83 conjugis Margeriae.
Elford, ex jure ux. Annae, 2 ux.
sine.
Margeria, filia et ha3res=j=Kicardus Huddleston, Ai1., p'mam accepit ux.
Will'mi Smith, militis, et
sua? conjugis Annas.
Margeria' Smith.
(Gules, fretty argent, a crescent or for difference.)
Lucia, filia astate maxima et coka3resMargeria3,=pJoh'es Brooke de Hasler
uxoris Ricardi Hudleston, Ai'migeri
in Com. Staff., filius
Thomas.
Rob'tus Brooke de Haseler in Com. Stafford,=pCatherina, filia Clementis
filius et haares Joh'is, sup'stes 1583.
Agard de Foston in Com.
Derb., Ar.
I I III
Jacobus Brooke, Will'm's Brooke, Susanna, Aleonor, Lucia,
primogenitus. 2 genitus. filia 1. filia 2. filia 3.
asrotujljton of St'oufl&toin*
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Gules, a chevron between three " brockes "
argent. [Broughton.] 2. Napton (blank). 3. Argent, a chevron
rompu between three crosses bottonee fitchee sable. [Greenway.]
Opposite the shield is written : " This Thomas Broughton claymeth
to beare for Napton these armes, Ar., lyon ramp. g. crowned or.''''
Lord Hatherton's MS. gives the arms of Napton as — Or, on a f esse
azure, three escallops argent.
* This pedigree requires a thorough investigation. According to Erdeswick
(edit. 1844, p. Ill), the Broughtons were descended paternally from Napton.
Roger de Napton, son of Henry de Napton, living 12 and 13 Edw. I., " had issue
Elias de Broughton, who had issue John, who had issue "William, who had issue
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
59
Roger Brocton al's=r. . . . daughter and heire
Broughton of
Broughton.
of Roger Napton, Lord of
Charlton in Com. Staff.
John Broughton.=j=Eve, one of the da. and heires of Thomas
Grenewaye of Bedulf.
Thomas Brockton al's=p Elizabeth, da. of John Younge of
Broughton. Charnes.
Richard Broughton of Broughton in=pMargaret, daughter of Hughe
Com. Stafforde, ancyently called Brocton.
Sandforde of Sandforde.
Richarde Broughton=i=Catherin, da. of John John, 2. Humfrey, 4.
of Broughton.
Aston of Aston in
Com. Cestr.
Roger, 3. Frauncis, 5.
Richard, who had issue John, who had issue Thomas, who had issue Richard, who
had issue Thomas, father of Francis Broughton, both living." A pedigree (said to
be in the handwriting of Sir Henry St. George the elder) in the Harl. MS. 1439,
brought down to 1623, commences with Simon de Chorleton, living 1256, whose
daughter and heir married Henry Napton, and had issue a " da. & sole heir " Julian,
married to Roger Broughton. Their son and successor was "Ely Broughton,"
living 1331, who married " da. & coheire of Reynold of Charnes," and was father by
her of John Broughton, living 1368. This John had issue by Margaret his wife,
daughter of Sir John Bromley, Knt., a son Thomas, living in 1405, who married
" Elena filia et coheres Bic'i Greneway de Bidulfe," and had Thomas, living 1463,
who married Margaret, da. of John Younge of Charnes.
Another version of the Broughton pedigree will be found in Betham's
"Baronetage" (ii., 242), and also in Kimber and Johnson (ii., 182). This version
is said to be taken from " a MS. genealogy in the possession of the present baronet,"
and it appears to have been compared with Vincent's Staffordshire in the College of
Arms. Here the family is deduced lineally from the Vernons of Shipbrook. Adam
de Napton, we are informed, was son of Richard de Vernon, a younger son of Hugh,
Baron of Shipbrook. This Adam de Napton was " so called from the place of his
abode [Napton, Co. Warwick] and possessions," and he " gave for arms Or, on a
fesse Azure three escallops of the field." He was father of Henry de Napton, who,
by " the sister of Roger Meuland, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry," had issue a
second son Roger, Lord of Broughton, etc., which Roger married Julian de Charnes
(or, "as some pedigrees say, Julian, daughter and heiress of Roger Napton"), and
had issue " Ely, and Reginald a priest." This Ely, we are told, married Margaret,
daughter of Sir John Bromley, and was great-great-grandfather of the John
Broughton who married the coheiress of Greneway.
It is singular that the Broughtons abandoned the three brocks, and subsequently
adopted a totally different coat, viz., Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last
a cross of the first. Crest : A sea-dog's head gules, finned and eared argent.
These are the bearings allowed to Sir Bryan Broughton of Broughton, Bart., by
Dugdale at his Visitation in 1663-4, and they are still borne by the family.
60
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Thomas Broughton=pMary, da. of
of Broughton, liv-
ino-e 1583.
Frau ncys
Bos of Lax-
ston in Com.
Notts.
Anne, mar. to
Thomas Vise
of Byshopes
Offley in Com.
Staford.
Jane, mar. to
Thomas Winston
of . . . .* in Com.
Surrey.
Elizabeth,
mar. to
George
Dodde of
Petshay in
Com. Salop.
Ursula, 2, mar.
to Rob't Fair-
fax, brother to
Sr Will'm Fair-
fax of Gillinge
in Com. Ebor.
Jane, 3, mar.
to Richard
Beverley, 2
sonne of
Beverley of
Selby in
Com. Ebor.
Margaret,
4 daugh-
ter.
Dorothe,
5 da.
Mary, 6 da.
Catherin,
7 da.
Frauncis, eldest
sonne, astat. 27
annor' 1583.
Bryan, 2 sonne. John, 4. Thomas, 6.
Edwarde, 3 sonne. Peter, 5. Richarde, 7.
Thomas Broughton.
JSrougfttou of ilons&on.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Gules, a chevron between three " broclces "
argent, within a border of the last. [Broughton.] 2 and 3.
Gules, a chevron engrailed between three cinque/oils argent.
[Acton.]
Thomas Brockton al's Broughton^Isabell, da. & heire
of Longdon in Com. Staff., of Walter Actone
descended of the house of Brough- in Com. Wigorn.
ton of Broughton.f
* Of Flexworth (Hatherton MS.) ; of Wanborough (Harl. MS. 1439).
f According to Betham and others, he was son of William, and grandson of
Roger Broughton, which Roger is stated to have been third son of Richard
Broughton of Broughton by Catherine Aston.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
61
Eleanor, da.^pRicharde^Elizabeth,
of Humfrey
Ruggeley of
Longdon.
1 wife.
Brough-
ton of
Longdon,
livinge
in anno
1583.
da. of
John Har-
court of
Kanton
in Com.
Staff.
John Brongh-
ton, 2 sonne,
mar. Elizabeth,
da. of ... .
Thorpe of Essex.
Lewis Brongh-
ton, mar. da. of
Foulke Barrett
of Shropshire.
John Broughton,
2 sonne, mar.
Elene, da. of
.... Barton;
nowe livinge
at Longdon.
Anne, mar.=
John
Broughton.
:John Brough-
ton of Wolver-
hampton in
Com. Staff.
Edmonde, eldest
sonne, mar. Aud-
ley, da. of Will'm
Holstocke,
Comptroller of
the Shipps.
John, eldest
sonne, set. 9
anor 1583.
Edwarde,
2 sonne.
Thomas,
3 sonne.
Eliza-
beth.
X'pr, 2 sonne.
Edmonde
Broughton,
eldeste Will'm,
sonne. 3 sonne.
Edwarde
Broughton,
eldest sonne,
jetat. 40
anor. et
amplius,
1583, at
Longdon.
Frauncis, eldest da. Foulke Broughton, eldest sonne, of
— Worcester towne, nowe livinge.
Catherin, 2 da. —
— Andrewe, seconde sonne, dwellinge
Maulde, 3 da. in Lond'.
Elizabeth. Thomas, 3 sonne, Apprentize in
Worcester.
Jhon Beoughton.
62
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Cftolmclrg ot Copntfjall
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Gules, two close helmets in chief argent,
and a garb in ~base or. [Cholmeley.] 2. Lozengy argent and
azure, a bend or, fretty gules. [Cheyny.] 3. Argent, three cocks,
2 and 1, sable [Capenhurst] ; in the centre acrescent for difference.
Henry ke, t'pe E. 1.
Hughe Cholmeley.
WiH'm.=F
Gilberte,=pKatherin, da. Eicharde.
Lo.
Talbot.
of the Kinge
of Portugal!.
Will'm, =pMaulde, da. and
2 sonne.
one of the heires
of Chorley.
Elizabeth.=FPiicharde. Sr John^. ... da. & heire of John
Cheynie.
Capenhurst.
Will'm.^pMaulde, da. and heire.
Richarde.=j=Ellene, da. of John
Damporte.
John, Eeceaver to the=p. ... da. of
L. Brooke, dwelt at
Copenhall.
Pisstocke.
Richarde.^p. . . . d. and one of A da., to Elizabeth, Ellin, to
the heires of Hinton. to John Hainan
Sr Tho. Dutton. Hanmer. Hassall.
Richard.=j=Elizabeth, da. of Sr Eaulfe Brearton.
Eicharde, s.p. Eandall, (2) Anne, to (1) Catherin, to Ursula,to
S'jante at Eandall Eichard Thomas
Main- Prestland. Standley.
wairinge.
George, s.p.
the Lawe,
Eecorder
of London.
A
b
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 63
B
Sr Hughe Chohneley.=pAnne, da. of George Doleman.
Hughe. Kicharde. Randall. Frauncis, a daughter.
John, mar. da.=j=
of ... . Allynn
John (sic), 2 sonne.=p Joane, da. of Turner.
I
Thomas Cholmeley=pMargery d. of Will'm.
of Copenhall. Morrys Aynion.
Edward Cholmeley of Copenhall in Com.=7=Eleanor, d. of Henry
Stafford, livinge 1583; mar. to his 2 wife,
da. of Rich. Powell of Ednoppe in Com.
Salop, Esq. =f=
Thomas
Langton.
Richarde, Henry Cholmeley, eldest sonne,
2 sonne. setat. 26 an'o 1583.
Elizabeth, da. of . . . .=pRichard.=j=Dennis, da. to Henry.:
Michell of Stamerham. .... Phillips.
Rob't, mar. Anne, Ben- John, 5=plsabell, dau. of John Will'm. =p
d. of . . . . Hastinges. net. sonne.
Hare of London.
Henry, 1. Nicholas, 2. John, 3. Will'm.
Humfrey, mar. Eliz., d. and John, 2 sonne.=p
coheire of Slaide.
John. Thomas. Richarde. John.
Will'm. Rob'te. Nicholas.
Edwaed Cholmeley.
64
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Colpr of Sarlagton*
Arms. — Argent, on a chevron azure behveen three demi-unicorns courant
gules as many acorn slips or.
Crest. — A demi-Moor affronte proper, with rings in his ears or, holding
in his dexter hand an oak branch, frncted or.
Arma concessa Rob'to Colyare de Darlaston per l'ras patentes dat'
an'o p'imo reg' Eliz', per W. Hervy, turn Clarencieulx Regem Armor'.
(By the side of the crest.) Moras demidiatus asurij colorijs, dextra
tenens ramu'clu' querci'um aureu', anulettis, per utrumq' aurem penden-
tibus, aureis.
Jacobus Colyar de Darleston in Corn. Staff., Armiger.^
Rob tus Colyar de Darlaston in=pAgnes, filia Thomas Venables
Com. Staff., Ar., modo superstes
in an'o D'ni 1583.
de Kinderton in Palantinu'
Cestrise, militis.
Jacobus Colyar, Christopherus Ric'dus Thurstanus Rob'tus
primogenitus Colyar, Colyar, Colyar, Colyar,
films et hseres, 2 filius. tertius 4 filius. 5 filius.
astat.23,an°1583. filius.
Elizabetha, filia Margareta, 2 filia. Cecilia, 4 filia. Maria, 6 filia.
astate maxima, — — —
nupta Jacobo Isabella, 3 filia. Letecia, 5 filia. Agnes, 7 filia.
Skrimshere de
Norbery in
Com. Staff.
Cortrtt of HonfinU*
Rob'te Corbette of Hatherton in Com. Cestr.
Richarde Corbette=pJoane, daughter of
of Hatherton.
. . Crouche.
Aems. — Argent, three ravens proper, 2 and 1. (Hatherton MS.)
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
65
Thomas Corbet=pElizabeth, Roger, 2, mar Anne, mar. to .
of Hatherton,
nowe of Hon-
forde in Com.
Staf. 1583.
da. of
Rob'te
Spicer of
New-
porte.
Walter, 3. Joane, mar. to
— John Andrewes of
Will'm, mar , Codsell in Com.
4. Staford.
Thomas, astat. 18 an'or' 1583. Anne.
Thomas Corbett.
CogncK of OTJnrtou Cokucj),
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Or, on a bend sable three trefoils slipped
argent. [Coyney.] 2 and 3. Argent, a lion rampant guardant
ermines. [Burnell.]
Crest. — A cubit arm erect, vested sable, slashed or, holding in the
hand proper a faulchion argent, embrued gules, hilt and pomel
gold.
Robert Coyne of=j=Alice, daughter of Hugh Erdeswike
Weston Coyne. of Sandon, Esqr.
Robert Coyne of Weston Coynen=Dorothe, daughter of Tho.
in Com. Staff. Meverell of Throwley.
John=f=Margery, da. Walter, twise Rob't, Jane, mar. Pernell,
Coyne
of
Weston
Coyne.
of Jo. Spur- mard and had s.p.
stowe of yssue by the
Spurstowe in second wife.
Com. Cestr.
to Tho. mar. to
Bucknall ....
of Ubbel- Dolman
ley in Com. de Com.
Staff. Derby.
66
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Edward
Coyne,
3 sonne,
s.p.
.(1) I
Winifred, da.=p George = Margery,
of Jo. Skrim-
shire of Nor-
bnry in Com.
Staff.
Coyne
of Chip-
pen all
in Co.
Salop.
John, 1 sonne.
da. of
Nedeham
of Shen-
ton, sister
to Rob't
Ne deli am.
Dorothe, mar. to
James Barlowe of Ip-
stones in Com. Staff.
Jane, died sans issue.
Eloner, mar. to
Wai'm Allen of
Brookehouse in Com.
Staff., gen.
John Coyney of Weston Coyne in=pAnne, cla. of Anthony Wolfesley
Com. Staff., Esq1' : nowe livinge 1583. of Wolfesley in Com. Staff.
Thomas Coyne,=pJane, daughter of John, 2 Susan, Cassandra, 2 da
eldest sonne,
setat. 23 an.
1583.
Ralfe Downe of sonne.
Utkington in —
Com. Cestr. Adam, 3
sonne.
1 da.
John Coyne.
Margerie, 3 da.
Mary, 4 da,
John Coyne.
Crompton of CfircMcg antr <#tom,
.... Crompton.=j=
Richarde-
Cromp-
ton of
London,
mercer.
^Elizabeth, da. of Will'm Crompton=fCatherin, da. of
Girlinge of of London,
Norfolke vel mercer.
Suffolke.
Rawson, widdowe of
.... Richardson of
London.
Will'm Crompton,* eldeste sonne, nowe livinge ; Thomas,
dwellinge in the Abbey at Stone. 2 sonne.
* This William Crompton was disclaimed by Glover at Uttoxeter August 8,
1583. According to MS. E. D. N. 13, in Coll. Arm., and Lord Hatberton's MS., the
following " Arms and Creaste " were " gevyn to Will1" Crompton, of Stone, in
Staffordsh., by Will™ Flower, al's Norrey Kinge of Amies, A0 1588" — Argent, on
a chief vert three pheons or. Crest : In a mural crown or, a sea-horse's head
argent.
C&pwg
Harry Soane Heraldic En^rdverdcZondon
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
67
1
Margaret, the first wife
1
Grace, mar. to
1
Rose, mar.
1
Anne, dyed
of Sr Thomas Cotton
John Cotton, the
to
yonge.
of Kent.
second brother of
Latus
Sr Thomas.
of the
Northe.
Richard Crompton of Checkley in=j=Catherin, da. of Oliver Richardson
the Countie of Staf ., Esqr, Justice
of Peace and quorum ; living
1583.
of London, grocer, by his wife
Catherin, da. of ... . Rawson.
Hughe Crompton, eldest sonne, Will'm Margarette, Elizabeth,
astat. 12 annor' 1583. Crompton, eldest da. 2 daughter.
2 sonne.
BtcftntS of 35flImtston,
Arms. — Ermine, a cross patonce sable.
Will'm Dickens of Bobington in=j=
the Countye of Staff orde.
Thomas Dickens of Bobington.
John Dickens=j=Eleanor, da.
of Bobington, ! of ... .
eldest sonne. \ Blounte.
Thomas Dickens, 2 sonne.
Richarde Dickens. =p
Hughe Dickens1
of Bobino-ton.
Humfrey:
Dickens
of Bob-
ington.
:Joane, da.
of Hum-
frey Lee
of Envill.
Thomas Dickens=j=Edith, da. of Tho's
of Morehall in
Com. Stafford.
;Elizab.
da. of
Thomas.
Will'm.
Richarde.
Corbin & his wife,
the d. of Moore of
Moorehall.
Alice, da. and=j=Mathewe
heire to her
mother.
Moreton
of Ingle-
ton.
F 2
68
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A|
Will'm Dickens=rAlice, the Edwarde Isabell, roar. Mary.
of Bobington
in the Conntye
of Staff or de ;
nowe livinge
1583.
da. of
Mathewe
More ton
of Ingle-
ton.
Moreton to John
of Ingle- Egginton of Constance.
ton. Roberston in —
Corn. Staff. Margaret.
John Dickens, setat. 4 Mary. Alice. Elizabeth,
annor' anno 1583.
Subscrybed by me Rychard Whorwood
for Wyll'm Dyckyns.
GFntitttore of ComfccrfoiU
Arms. — Argent, a /esse gules between three horseshoes sable.
Alanus Comberford.=p
Ricardus.
Margeria, senior.=f= Agnes, media soror.=p Anna, junior.5
Margeria, uxor Rad'fi Sibilla, uxor Ricardi Johannes
Bolinghull. Hopwas. Shepy.
Ricardus Bolinghull.^
Will'm's Hopwas.=
AlanuB
Quilet.
Johannes Bolinghull.^ Johannes Hopwas.
Alicia, uxor . . .
Kinge, obiit s.p.
Will'm's Hopwas,:
nunc quserens.
Hucusq. ex pargameno
antiquo.
Anne, da. and sole heire of Wiirm=j=Thomas Endsore of Cumberforde
Hopwas of Cumberforde. in Com. Staf.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
69
A|
John End-=pHelene,
sore of
Cuniber-
forde.
da. of
Savage.
Edwarde End-
sore of Pagetts
Bromley,
second sonne.
:. . . . da. of
John Cooper
of Bromley.
Humfrey
Endesore,
3 sonne,
mar. da. of
Thomas End-=pDorothe, da. Richard Ende-=Elene, da. Thomas
sore* of
Cumberforde;
nowe livinge
1583.
of Hmnfrey sore of Pagettes of Raulf Endsore,
Cumberforde Bromely in Okeover of mar.
of Cumber- Com. Stafforde ; Okeover da.
ford in Com. nowe livinge of ... .
Staf. 1583.
Christopherus Endesore,
eldest sonne, astat. 21
an'or' 1583.
Walter, 2 sonne. Elizabeth, eldest.
John, 3 sonne. Susan, 2.
Will'm, 4 sonne. Isabell.
Thomas Endesore.
tiPbenntt ot asajnttrngtcm,
Aems. — Gules, on a /esse between three estoiles argent, as many mullets
sable.
Richarde Everarde of Shenton=pJoyce, da. of ... .
in Com. Leicester. Langham of Gopshill.
Rob te Everarde of=
Shenton in Com.
Leicest. ; nowe
Hvinge 1583.
A
:Margarette, da. of
Thomas Wolver-
ston of Wiforde
in Com. Staff.
Will'm, mar. &
hath yssue.
George, sans
yssue.
Thomas
* The Harl. MS. 6128 gives another son to Thomas and Dorothy, viz. George
Ensor, who, by " dau. of Coleman," was father of John Ensor of Wilnecote,
Co. Warwick. Shaw (i., 434) has followed this; but it is undoubtedly wrong.
George Ensor was a son of John Ensor of "Wilnecote, and brother of Barnaby Ensor
of the same place. See the " Herald and Genealogist," ii., p. 301, where the identity
of George is clearly established.
70
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
.11
Richarde=j=Jane, da. and
o 1 1
Sampson,
1 1
Maulde, mar.
1 1
Joyce, mar
Everarde
heire of Rich.
3 sonne.
to Richard
to Tho.
of Shen-
Waterton de
Woodhall.
Barforde.
ton.
Com.Lincolne.
John, 4
—
sonne.
Mary, mar. to
Margaret,
I
JohnBrudnall,
mar. to
Richarde Everarde, eldest
brother to Sr
Sampson
sonne, setat. 16 an'or'
Edmond
"Wolfreston
1583.
Brudnall.
Humfrey Everarde of Whitington in=j=Anne, da. of Richard Clerkson
Com. Staff. ; nowe livinge 1583
Edwarde Everarde,
eldest sonne, as tat.
8 an'or' 1583.
of Whitington, & his onelyheire.
John, 2 sonne. Frauncis, Alice, 3 da.
— eldest da. —
Michaell, 3 sonne. — Joane, 4 da.
Catherin,
2 da.
Humfrey Everard.
Arms. — Per bend dancettee or and gules, a crescent for difference.
Crest. — A garb or between two wings gules, feathered gold (or per pale
dancettee gules and or).
Thomas Ferne.=F
Will'm Ferne=p Joane, da. of Aden [Adam] Beresforde of
of Perwiche
Fenny Bentley, Esqr, in Com. Derby.
Thomas Feme of Grene
in the Com. of Derby,
and of Hognoston, eldest
sonne.
I
John Feme of=j=Phillis, da. of Rob'te
Perwiche in Milward of Eton in
Com. Derby. Com. Derbye.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
71
Edwarde Feme,
incouipos mentis,
3 Alius.
Anne, mar. to John
Fitzherbert of Soiner-
sail in Com. Derb.
Elizabeth, 2 da., mar. to
Anthony Rothewood* of
Sandall in Com. Ebor.
Will'ni Feme of=FAnne, da. of
Temple Bel-
wood in Com.
Lincolne,
sup'stes 1583.
Rob'te Shef-
felde, Esq1-,
a yonger
brother.
John Feme of Crake-1
marsh e in Com. Staff.,
second sonne ; livinge
1583.
:Anne, da. of
Roger
Jacksonne
of Ashburne
in le Peke.
John Ferne,=pElizabeth, Douglasse, Will'm Ferae, Mary, eldest,
sonne and da. of a virgin. eldest sonne.
heire ;
livinge
1583.
John
Nedeham
de Com.
Hertf., Ar.
John Feme,
2 sonne.
Will'm Feme, natus mense Octob. 1583.
Dorothe,
seconde.
Anne, thirde.
Phellis, fourthe.
Per me Joh'em Ferne,
filium et h'dem Wilielmi Ferne.
dfmtJctmt
Robertus Finderne, 19 E. 3.
Johannes Finderne.=
De Com. Staff. Vpe R. 2,
veil R. 4.
Joh'es de Draycotte, chTr.
Joh'es de Verdun, chTr.
Joh'es Bassett, ch'l'r.
Phillippus de Okeov', ch'l'r.
Thomas de Aston, ch'l'r.
Thomas de Tommehorne, ch'l'r.
Joh'es de Perton, ch'l'r.
Joh'es Bagott, ch'l'r.
Will'm's de Schershull.
Will'm's Wastneys.
Joh'es Herun'ille.
Rob'tus Coyne.
* This Anthony is called " Whorwood of Sandall " in a pedigree of Ferne, taken
from a Visitation of Lincolnshire, printed in the " Genealogist," iv., 22.
t According to the Harl. MS. 1570, Finderne hore Argent, a chevron wavy
between three crosses formee fitchee sable.
Johannes Finderne.
Rob'tus Finderne.=
A
72
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A|
Nicholaus Finderne, 13 E. 4.=f=
Rob tus Finderne.=p
Nicholaus Finderne.
Thomas Finderne.=F
Georgius Finderne.=
Thomas Finderne, modo defend'
Will'm's de Kinardesley.
Joh'es de Couly.
Joh'es de Marnham.
Joh'es de Whitemore.
Will'm's de Bentley.
Rad's Honton.
Rogerus de Bould.
Joh'es de Pilletenhalle.
Joh'es de Frodeshall.
Thomas de Hexstall.
Thomas Mynners.
Ric'us de Ruggeley.
Ric'us de Jordan.
Rad's Okeov'.
Henricus de Somerford.
Joh'es Childe de Buckerdon.
Will'm's de Stonilowe.
Thomas de Eyton.
Mfhribzvt ot Hotfrorg, etc.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 8. Argent, a chief vaire or and gules, over
all a bendlet sable. [Fitzherbert.] 2. Barry of six argent and
sable, a canton ermine. [Marshall.] 3. Argent, a bend sable
between three pellets. [Cotton.] 4. Azure, an eagle displayed
argent, armed gules. [Ridware.] 5. Gules, three swords erect,
2 and 1, argent, pomels and hilts or. [Waldesheff.] 6. Argent,
three falcons close gules. [Fawcon.] 7. Azure, two bars argent.
[Venables.]
Crest. — A cubit arm in armour, the hand appearing clenched within the
gauntlet, all proper.
A second shield of the same arms and quarterings, with an escutcheon
of pretence : Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, on a chevron sable
three qualrefoils or. [Eyre.] 2 and 3. Or, three horse-barnacles
sable. [Padley.]
Alice, daughter of:
Henry Booth of
Arleston.
:Nicholas Fitzherberte of=
Norberye in the Countic
of Derby.
=Isabell, da. of
.... Lndlowe,
second wife.
John Fitzherbert of=pMargery, the
Etwall, second I daughter of
Sonne, the Kinges | Rob t Bab-
remembrancer in ington.
the Exchequer.
Rob't Fitzherbert:
of Uphall in the
Com. of Herford.
:Elizabeth,
da. of Raulfe
Joselyne of
Sabrigworth
in Essex.
Jil^nlrtsi
/////i Soane. IIeTttIdzcEni>ra.ver<£cZmcifon.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
73
Henry Fitz-
herbert,
Knight.
A|
Joane, mard to Hmnfrey=j=Dyonise, da. & heire
John Porte
of Chester.
Fitz-
herbert.
Eustace Sr John
Fitz- Porte,
herberte. Knio-hte.
of Hen. Elveden.
Sr John Fitz-
herbert,
Kniffht.
:Anne Anthony.
Wayne- —
man. Michaell.
Henry Fitzherbert.
Raulf Fitzherbert of=j=Elizabeth, daughter and sole heire
Norberye, Esqr
eldest sonne.
of John Marschall of Upton in the
Com. of Leicester.
Thomas Fitz-
herbert,
Doctor of the
Civill Lawe.
John Fitzherberte=pBenet, da. of
of Norburye, Esqr,
eldest sonne.
Jo. Brad-
borne of
Hoffhe.
Henry Fitz-
herbert of
London,
marchant,
married.
Nicholas Fitzherbert=Dorathe, da.
of Norbury, Esq1-, s.p. of Sr Rafe
Lonoford, K*.
Anne, mar. Elizab., mar. to
to Jo. Wells. Sr Phillip
Draycotte.
Dorothe, da. of Sr=Sr Anthony Fitzherbert,=j=Maude, eldest da. and
Hen. Willughby, Kl, Justice of ye Com'on
Knight. 1 wife. Benche.
coheire of Rich. Cotton
of Rideware in Com.
Stafford.
Sr Thomas Fitz-=. ... da. of
herbert, K* ; Arthur
nowe livinge Eyre of
1583. Padley.
John Fitzherbert, 2 sonne, mar.
Catherin, da. of .... Restwood
of the Yach in Com. Buck.
Maulde, 1= Thomas
daughter. Barlowe
of
in Com.
d Derby.
Jane,=Thomas Eyre
2 da. of Dunstonin
the Countye
of Derby.
Anne, 3 da.
Elizab., 4 da.
Mary, 5 da. e
74
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Thomas Fitzherbert, eldest Nicholas, 2 sonne. George, 4 sonne.
sonne, married Elizabeth, — —
da. of Jo. Whestby de Com. Frauncis, 3 sonne. Anthony, 5 sonne.
Lane., de "West by in Com.
Ebor., et de Molbroke in
Com. Lane.
Richard Fitzherbert,
3 son', mar. Mary,
da. of ... . "Westcott.
Will'm Fitzherbert, 4 son', mar. Elizab.,da. of
Humfrey Swinnerton of Swinnerton in Com.
Staf., & one of the heires.
Will'm Fitz-
herbert,
1 sonne.
Nicholas,
2 sonne.
Thomas. Anne, mar. to Walter Heven-
— ingham of Aston and Pipe in
Anthony. the Com. of Staf.
Thomas Fitzherbert.
fflt&ttbztt of jfiMtmrg.
(no
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a chief vaire or and gules, over all
a bendlet sable. [Fitzherbert.] 2. Or, on a bend sable three
butterflies argent. [Somersall.] 3. Barry of six argent and
sable, a canton ermine. [Marshall.]
Nicholaus Fitzherb't de Norbury,=pAlicia, filia Henrici Boothe
sup'stes an'o 30 H. 6.
de Aries ton.
Joh'es Fitzherb't de=
Etwall, s'd's Alius,
Eememorator Regis
H. 8 in scaccario.
:Margeria,
filia
Rob'ti
Babins'ton.
Rob'tus Fitzherb't^.
de Uphall in Com
Hertford.
filia
Joscelyn.
Henrieus=f=
Fitzherb't
.... filia,
nupta. . . .
Copwoode.
Johanna, nupta
Port.
Barbara, nupta
Thomas Cokayn,
militi.
Eustachius Fitzherb't.=F Johannes Porte.
filia, nupta Smith.
filia, nupta Smithe. b
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
75
Humfridus=pDionisia, filia et coheres Henrici Elveden.
Fitzherb't. (A fesse daucettee between three bugle-liorus.)
Johannes=Anna Antonius.
Fitzherb't, Weyman. —
miles. Michaell.
Dorothea, nupta Joh'i
Wingfeild de Lether-
inffha'.
Wilgefort, nupta Helena, nupta Will'mo Gracea, nupta . .
Eob'to Tansfeild. Gevelite. Robinson.
Maria Gevelott.
Rad'us Fitzherb't=pElizabetha, filia et coheres .
de Norbury. de Upton in Com. Leicestr.
Marshall
Margeria, ux.
Nicolai Pur-
ferey.
.... filia, nupta .... Editha, p'mo nupta Thomas
Cumberford, cui Babington de Dethick,
peperit Humfridum deinde renupta ....
Cumberford. Litster.
Johannes Fitzherb't=pBenedicta, filia et hasres Johannis
de Norbury. Bradborne del Hoghe.
Nicolaus Fitzherb't de Norbury, Elizabetha, nupta Phil- Anne,
duxit Dorothea', filia' Rad'i Long- lippo Draycott, militi. nupta
ford, militis ; obi j t sine exitu. =j= Johanni
|— Welles.
Elizabetha, nupta Foljambe.
Anthonius Fitzherb't, miles,^=Matildis, filia et una
serviens ad legem.
4 ha3redu' Ricardi
Cotton de Rideware.
Henricus=
Fitzherb't,
2 filius.
Elizabetha, p'mo nupta .... White, deinde renupta .... Fery.
Antonius White, 1. Joh'es White, 3. Georgius White,
— — 5 filius.
c Ricardus White, 2. Ric's White, 4.
76
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Thomas Fitzherb't, Johannes.
miles, duxifc filia' —
et hasred' Artlmri Ric'us.
Eyre de Padley. —
Will'm's.
Dorothea, Catherina, Elizabetha,
p'mo nupta nupta nupta
Rad'oLong- Joh'i Will'mo
ford, militi, Sach- Bassett.
pos tea Joh'i verell. =p
Port, militi. =F
Nicholaus Longford. Henricus Sachverell. Will'm's Bassett.
Arms. — Lozengy argent and Gules.
John Fitz Williams of Sprotsbrughe, Knighte ;:
ancyent from the Conqueste.
Joim.=f Elizabeth, da. of Will'm Clinton,
Earle of Huntington.
Sr Will'm Fitzwilliams, Edmonde=pMaulde, da. of Henry Scroope=
mar. Maulde, da. of
Raulf, Lo. Cromwell.
Fitz-
will'ms,
2 sonne.
Sr John
Hotham of
Storbrouffhe.
of Massam.
Edmonde=pCatherin, da. of
Fitzwill'ms. Sr John Clifton.
Elizabeth, da. & heire, mar. to
Thomas Clarell of Aldwarke.
S1' Richard FitzwiH'ms.=pElizabeth, da. and heire.
.... da., mar da., mar da., mar.
to John to Ralph to Will'm
Skipwith. Reresby. Wentworth.
Thomas Reresby. Thomas Wentworth.
.... da., Elizabeth,
mar. to mar. to
.... Thomas
Mir- Wortley.
feilde.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
77
Sr Thomas— Lucy, da. to John Nevill, M'quess of Montacute ;
Fitzwilliams. after to Anthony Browne.
Thomas*= Agnes Paken-=SrWiH'ni Will'm Fitz- Elizabeth,! mar.
Fitz- ham. Sydney. will'm, Earle to Sir Will'm
will'ms. of South- Gascoigne.
ampton.
dfoljam&e of Crojrtrnt
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Sable, a bend behueen six escallops or.
2. Argent, a bend azure charged with five crosses-crosslet or.
3. Argent, a chevron between three escallops gules ; in the centre a
crescent gules for difference. The whole within a border engrailed
gules.
Crest. — A leg couped at the thigh, quarterly or and sable, spurred gold,
charged in chief ivith a fesse indented gules, a crescent of the last
for difference.
Sr Godfreye Fouljambe of Walton=f=Catherin, the da. of John
in the Comt' of Derby, K*. Leeke of Sutton, Esq1-.
Sr James Foul-
jambe of Wal-
ton, Knighte.
Sr Godfrey
Fouljambe
of Walton,
Knight; nowe
livinsre 1583.
Alice,$
the da. of
Thomas
Fitz-
will'm
of Aid-
war ke.
Godfrey=
Foul-
jambe of
Crox-
den, and
of Ald-
warke
by his
wife.
X
A \
:Margaret,|
an other
da. and
coheire of
Tho. Fitz-
will'm of
Aldwarke.
George=i=Dorothe,
Foul-
jambe
of Bal-
borough
in Com.
Derby,
3 sonne.
u
da. of
.... Bar-
lowe of
Barlowe
in Com.
Derby.
* This Thomas Fitzwilliam was slain at Flodden in 1513. He died seised {inter
alia) of the manor of Thorpe-Constantine in Staffordshire, and "William his son,
then aged four, was found by inquisition to be his heir. William died an infant in
7 Henry VIII. (1515), whereupon his two sisters, Alice, the wife of James Foljambe,
and Margaret, the wife of Godfrey Foljambe (brother of James), were found to be
his next heirs, and of the respective ages of fourteen and twelve. See Shaw, i., 405,
and " Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica," i., 355 ; ii., 68, etc.
f Should be Margaret.
\ See footnote (*) above.
78
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
I r
Godfrey Foul-=Joane,
jambe,* sonne da. of
naturall of George
Godfrey and Foul-
his beire ; jambe
nowe Lord of of Bal-
Croxden and borogb.
of Aldwarke.
Livinge in
Com. Staff.
1583.
Henry Foul-
Godfrey Foul-
Trothe,
jambe, eldest
jambe, mar.
second
son, mar. Mary,
Em me, daugh-
da.
widowe of
ter of ... .
—
Henry Babing-
Tunsted of
Catherin,
ton of Detliike,
Tunsted in the
3 daugh-
sister to Jobn,
Countye of
ter.
Lo. Darcy, that
Derbye.
nowe liveth
1583.
Godfrey Foljambe.
tfoMcv of ML CljomaS, |3rnMor&, etc
Arms.j — Azure, on a chevron engrailed between three lions passant
guar dan t or as many crosses moline sable.
[In Dugdale's MS. in Coll. Arm., and also in Harl. MS. 6128, a Crest
is given, viz. A cubit arm, holding cm open book of music.']
Will'm Fowler4=j=
Richarde Fowler,
Chauncellor of
the Dutchie.
1 | 2 3
Alice. = Thomas Fowler § of=Edyth.= Margery,
.... Esq1- for the
bodye to Kinge
Edward the fourth.
* His mother was named Brownlow, and at one period he was known as " Fol-
jambe alias Brownlow." See an elaborate pedigree of Foljambe in " Coll. Top. et
Gen.," vols. i. and ii.
f These arms were probably granted since 1528, for in that year died Sir Richard
Fowler of Rycote, son and heir of Richard Fowler, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster, and the arms on his monument in Trinity Church, London, were Argent,
three wolf's heads erased gules, within a bordure azure charged with castles, or
chess-rooks, or (being the coat of Rycote, alias Vis-de-lou, of Rycote), quartering
Barton, ~Englejield, and Gernon. The same coat, with a crescent for difference, is on
the monumental brass of Sir Richard's uncle, Thomas Fowler, in the chapel of Christ's
College, Cambridge.
J William Fowler married Cecilia, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Englefield
by Johanna Rycote, his wife, heiress of the family and estate of Rycote.
§ Thomas Fowler's first wife is called Mary or Margery, daughter of Edward
Lee or Lester, or of ... . Coleville. His second wife was Alice, widow of John
Hulcote of Hulcote, Northamptonshire, and daughter and heiress of John Houghton
of Ellesborou^h, Bucks. His third wife, who survived him, was Edith Dynham,
sister (it is presumed) of John, Lord Dynham, and her arms (Dynham quartering
Arches) are on the brass above named. He appears to have had three sons, Thomas,
Edward, and William.
Jtoteles,
ffarry Soane. Eentldit Engraver ^a London .
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
79
Edward Fowler,* a yonger sonne of Thomas, and1
dwelte at Twickenham neare Eichmond.
Roger Fowler of Bromhill^Sibjll Leghe, the sister to
in Norfolke. Rowlande, Bishop of
Coventry and Leichfeilde.
A daughter,
sans yssue.
Rollande Fowler of Brom-=p. . . .f da. of ... . Bradsha of Presten
hill in Norf. in Wales, in Com. Radnore.
George Fowler^=. . . .J da. of ... . J\Iontforde Bryan
of Bromhill. of Norf. Fowler.
Rowlande, eldeste sonne.
William Fowler
of Herneage
Grange in Com.
Salop, cler.
assisor™ ibi.
:Mary, da. of ... .
Blithe, Doctor in
Phisicke, sister to
Mrs Osborne.
James Fowler
of Pen for de
in Com. Staff.,
4 sonne.
OJargaret,§ da.
of ... . Moreton
of Wilhighton
in Com. Staf-
forde.
Richarde,
eldeste.
2. Peter. 1. Margaret.
3. Thomas, 2. Alice.
3 sonne. —
3. Mary.
Walter, 2 3
eldeste.
Bryan Fowler || of Sfc Thomas1
nere Staff. ; livinge 1583.
A
:Jane, da. of John Hanmer of Bettesfeld
in Com. Flinte, and his soale heire.
* This Edward is probably not joined on to the former pedigree because it was
doubtful whether he was son of Thomas Fowler the younger ; for in many of the
pedigrees he is so placed, and then an erasure has been made, leaving him son of
Thomas the elder. The latter is doubtless correct, for Thomas the younger appears
to have had female issue only, one of whom, Margery, is stated to have married
William Symons of " Bodill " in Cornwall. In one pedigree the wife of Edward
Eowler is called Margaret Colwich, and a family of that name lived at Richmond
and Isleworth. See their pedigree in "The Visitation of Yorkshire, 1563," edited
by Mr. Norcliffe for the Harleian Society, p. 63. ■
f Margaret, daughter of John Bradshaw of Presteigne.
t Bridget, daughter of Osbert Mundeford of Feltwell.
§ Should be Catherine, daughter of Robert Moreton of Haughton, co. Salop.
|| Buried with his wife in the chancel of Baswich Church, where their (mutilated)
tomb still remains.
80
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Bryan, 2 sonne.
John, 3 sonne.
Margaret, eldest,
mar. to Edward
Lane de Com.
Staff.
Anne, mar. to
Will'm Mont-
ford of Kinges-
lmrst in Com.
Warw.
Dorothe, mar,
to Sampson
Walker of
Weston in
Com. Staff.
Frauncis, mar. Cassandra, mar. Jane mar. to Isabell.
to Thomas to John Stone Eicharde —
Cauncefeilde of of Walsall in Daye. Martha.*
Lancasheire. Com. Staff.
Walter Fowler, eldest sonne, mar. Mary, da. of=p
Half Sheldon of Beeley in Com. Wigorn.
Bryan, eldeste, setat. 3, an0 1583. Edmond, 2 sonne. Anne.
Walter Fowler.
\* I am indebted to W. R Carter, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, for the notes to
this pedigree.
<§tffar& of CMltngton,
Arms. — Azure, three stirrups with leathers or.
Crest. — A panther's head couped affrontee or, spotted gules and azure,
flames issuant from the mouth proper.
Thomas Gyffard of Chillintom
in Com. Staff., Esqr.
rJoyce, da. of ... .
Robert] Frauncis.
[Sir
Rob'te Giffarde of:
Chillinton, Esq1'.
a
-Cassandra, f da. of .
Humfreston.
* The second wife of Thomas Skrimshire of Aquilate.
t The Hathertou and other MSS. call this lady " Cassandra, da. of John
Knightley of Fawsley;" but the following copy of an inscription formerly in
Brewood Church (printed in the late Mr. Hicks-Smith's " Brewood ") is decisive —
" Hie jacet Domina Cassandra, filia Thomae Humferston, Armigeri, et uxor Roberti
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
81
Jane da. of . .
Horde ; firste
wife.
=j=Sr John Giffarde= Elizabeth, da. of .
of Chillinton, Gresley; seconde
Knight. wife.
Cassandra, mar. to
Humfrey Swiuer-
ton.
Dorothe, first mar. to Jolm
Congreve, after to Frauncis
Sherley.
Frauncis,* mar,
to Sr John
Talbott.
Dorothe, da. and coheire=f=S'' Thomas Giffard=j=Ursula, da. of
of S1' John Montgomery,
Knis'ht ; first wife.
of Chillinton,
Kniffhte.
Throckmorton
seconde wife.
.... mar. to Sr John=j=
Porte, Knighte.
John Gifforde of=
Chillinton, Esqr.
.... wife to Thomas
Gerarde.
.... wife to George
Hastinges.
6fffart» of €Irinutgtcm,+
(no
Crest. — " Une teste de Panthaire d'or, heurtee, tortee, la langue de
gueules, assise sur une torse d'argent et de asure. Donne et
assigne au John Gyfford de Chelyngton en la Counte de Stafford
Escuyer, par Thomas Wryothesley Jarretihe et John Yonge
Norrey, Roys d'Armes, le 28 jour de May, l'an de Grace 1513,
et du reigne le Roy Henry Chrytiesme, cinquiesme."
Giffard, Armigeri, ac domiui de Chillington, ac postea uxor Johannis Brodoke,
Armigeri, quae Cassandra obiit .... die mensis Januarii Anno Dom. 1537, cujns
aninia propitietur Deus." Notwithstanding this, the great pedigree of Knightley
printed in Dr. Howard's " Miscellanea," i., 97, gives to John Knightley of Fawsley
a daughter "Cassandra uxor Johauni Langtree, Arinigero; renupta Johanni Giffard
de Chillington in Com. Staff."
* " Shee was b}r the dau. of Greseley." (Hatherton MS.)
f This second pedigree of Giffard has been inserted in the Stukeley MS. by Mr.
Thorpe from the presumed original in the library of Queen's College, Oxford. It
should be mentioned, however, that the last-named MS. contains both pedigrees.
It is not improbable that John Gill'ard failed to appear in person at the place and day
named by Glover lor holding his court for the hundred of Cudleston, and that, in
his absence, Glover, unwilling to omit all notice of so influential a family, entered so
much of the pedigree as he could discover from — it may be — the Squire's steward or
G
82
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Hoord port ar.,
sur le chef d'or,
ling corbeau sable.
Johanna,* uxor=f= Johannes Giffard,=f=Elizabetha,
p'ma, filia
Hoorde, qure
obijt 8 die De-
cembris, 1491.
miles, filius
Roberti, t'peE.4,
\l. 3, H. 7,et anno
3 H. 8. Obijt
1556.
uxor s'c'da,
filia
Greseley.
Cassandra, nnpta Dorothea, p'mo nupta Francisca, nupta Joh'i
Humfi'ido Swyn- Johanni Congreve, Talbot de Grafton in
nerton de Swyn- postea renupta Fran- Com. Wigorn, militi.
nerton. cisco Shirley. =p
Johannes Talbot, duxit filiam
Will'mi Petre, militis.
Jana, nupta Georgio Bowes de
Stretham in Ep'atu Dunelm, militi.
Dorothea, uxor prima,:
filia et cohasres Johan-
nis Montgomery,
militis.
-Thomas Giffard de:
Chillinton, miles,
obijt anno 1560,
2 reginse Eliza-
beths.
^Ursula, filia Roberti Throk-
morton de Caughton in
Com. War., militis ; quae
obijt 15 . .
1
Elizabetha, hasres
1
Edwardus Giffard,
1
Humfridus,
1
Robertus,
maternaB
hasredi-
2
filius, duxit
3 filius, duxit
4 filius.
tatis ; nupta Jo-
Franciscam, filiam
Alionoram,
hanni Port, militi.
. . .
. Skerne de
filiam ....
London.
Warde.
1
, uxor
T
^T
1
Eliza-
1 1
Dorothea
1 1
Johannes.
1 1 1
Fran- Rober-
T 1
Ursula, 3.
betha,
Georgij
Has-
—
cisca. tus, 1.
uxor
tinges, militis.
Thomas, 2.
—
Thomae
—
Edwar-
Gerard,
Margareta, uxor
dus, 2.
militis.
Thorns
Stan-
hop, militis.
A
attorney, and from previous entries in the College books. John Giffard and his
brother Humphrey were both duly summoned, as will be seen on reference to the
" Nomina Nobilium " (ante, p. 4), and the absence from that list of the word
appeared or entred seems to support my view. However it may be, we have in the
pedigree before us ample evidence of the fact that John Giffard did sometime appear
and " do right to posterity " by recording his armorial honours and — a portion of — his
ancient pedigree.
* It appears from a pedigree of Uoord in the "Topographer and Genealogist"
(i., 34) that she was one of the daughters of Thomas Hoord of Bridgnorth (who died
11 June, 1488) by Joyce, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Stapleton of Staple-
ton, Knt.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Dorothea, rmpta Gilberto
Astley de Patesbull in
Com. Staff., Ar.
2. Isabella, nupta Fran-
cisco Bydulf de Bydulf
in Com. Staff., Ar.
3. Cassandra, nupta
Erasmo Wolfesley
de Wolfesley bridge
in Com. Staff.
4. Elizabetba, 4 filia.
Anna, nupta
Georgio Smith
de Wotton in
Com. Warr., et
de Ashby in
Com. Leyc.
Johannes Giffard de Chillinton in=j=Jocosa, filia Jacobi
Com. Staff., Armiger, modo
superstes in anno 1583.
Leveson de Lilleshall
in Com. Salop, Ar.
Walterus Giffard, p'mo- Ricardus, 2 filins. Georgius, 6 filius.
genitus, duxit Philip- — —
parmfiliametcohoeredem Thomas, 3 filius. Geraldus, 7 filius.
Henrici White de South- — —
warnburgh in Com. Gilbertus, 4 filius. Edwardus, 8 filius.
Hampt., Ar. —
=j= Egidius, 5 filius.
Petrus Giffard, p'mogenitus,
aetatis 2 annor', 1583.
Johannes, s'c'd's filius.
Maria, p'ma filia,
nupta Ricardo
Brooke de Lap-
ley in Com. Staff.
Cassandra, 2 filia, Jana et Ursula, Francisca,
nupta Thomas, filio 3 et 4 filia?, 5 filia.
et haeredi Henrici gemellre, uno —
Cassy de Wightfeld partu enixaa. Dorothea,
in Com. Glouc. 6 filia.
Franciscus Cassy.
Cassy port b., ung chev'ron entre 3 (griffin's heads erased) or.
John Giffard.
©rant of a StantrarU to Sir Sofjn etffartJ, itttt
[This accompanies the second Pedigree of Giffard in " the original
Glover " (so styled by Thorpe), and has been copied into the Stukeley
MS. Through the courtesy of Somerset Herald I am enabled here to
G 2
84 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
annex a drawing of the Standard* from a contemporary MS. in the
College of Arms. This MS. contains beautifully executed drawings of
the Standards borne in the field by Peers and Knights in the reign of
Henry VIII., and has been fully described in Bentley's " Excerpta
Hisfcorica." Though I lay myself open to the charge of ' using vain
repetitions,' I venture to append the following description of the
Standard from that Work (p. 331) : — " Four stripes or and azure, A on
a wreath argent and sable, a demi-archer, looking towards the sinister,
couped at the knees, in armour proper ; from his middle a short coat
paly argent and gules, at his left side a sword, and at his right a quiver
of arrows or, in his hands a bow and arrow drawn to the head of the
last ; between in the dexter chief and sinister base, two representations
of the following Crest, viz., On a wreath argent and azure, a leopard's
head guardant erasedf or, spotted azure and gules, vomiting flames of
the last. In B two, and in C three leopard's heads as in A. Motto. —
' Preigns alaine tires fort.' "]
& tOUS JJVCSntS Ct a aUbrmr, &C. Thomas Wryothesley,
Jarretiere, et Thomas Benold, Clarencieulx, Roys des Amies, Saint.
Equite veult, &c. comme ainsy soit que Messire John Gyfford de Chel-
yngton en la counte de Stafforde par deca la Riviere de Trent, Chevalier,
soyt descendu de noble fignee, et aussi longuement ait contynue en
noblesse portant armes ; neantmoins icel luy incertain en quelle maniere
ses predecesseurs portoient leurs devises et cognoyssanccs en leurs
estandartz et guydhomes, non voulant prejudicier a nulluy, a nous
lesditz Roys d'Armes a requiz de luy ordonner, deviser, et assignor ung
estandart convenable. Et pour ce nous, consyderans sa requeste estre
juste et raisonable, &c, nous avons devise, ordonne, et assigne audit
Messire John Gyfford, pour luy ensemble et pour la posterite dudit
Messire John, avecques leurs differences, l'estandart en la maniere
qui s'ensuit ; c'est a savoir, a ung demy Archier d'home d'armes, arnie
d'asur, tirant son arc, la flesche, la corde de Tare, la trouse des flesches,
le pomeau et la croix de son espee, d'or ; son sayon de gueules et
d'argent pale de six pieces, assis sur une torse d'argent et de sable ; si
come la picture en la marge cydevant le demonstre. A avoir et tenir, &c.
Donne a, Londres le 12 jour de Juillet l'an de n're Sr Jesu Christ 1523,
et l'an du regne le Roy Henry Chrystiesme 15.
* From tho same source I have obtained a tracing of another Giffard Standard,
also here represented.
t In the Visitation the panther's head is represented couped, and it is so given
in Dugdale's Visitation, 1663. At this last-named Visitation two crests are recorded,
first the archer, second the panther's head, — the former apparently taking aim at
the latter. Of course there is a "legend "attached to these crests, which the curious
may read in Burke's " Anecdotes of the Aristocracy."
t-Qjyi -wn. C£fyjVu$> Sc s£ejwo^ *u <\>m) ,^ffo-^
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
85
(Bridles of BraMoto ant» Cotton,
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Vaire ermine and gules. [Gresley.]
2 and 3. Sable, a lion rampant argent, collared gules. [Was-
TENEYS.]
Crest. — A lion statant ermine, collared gules. (A second crest is given
in some MSS., viz., A lion's head coujped argent, collared gules.)
Sr John Greisley, sonne=pMargery, da. of
of Sr Thorn. Sr Tho. Clarell.
8r John Gresley,=pAnne, daughter of Sr Thomas
Knight.
Stanley of Elford.
Sr Thomas Gresley,=pAnne, daughter of Sr Thomas
Knight.
Ferrers of Tamworth.
Sr Wyll'm=Benet, da. of Sr Hen. Vernon
Gresley, of Hadon, K., in the Peke ;
Knight. sans yssue.
I I !
2. John, a 4. Robert,
preist. —
5. James.
Marga., da. of John Mnlsho of=j=Sr George=pCatherine, d. of
Fenton in Northamp'sh., &x°. Gresley, K. Edw. Lo. Dudley.
Catherin,
mara to
Edw. Win-
ter de Com.
Leicest.
Sr Wyll'm Greisley ,=
Knight, Lo. of Castle
Gresley, & of Colton.
:Catherin,
da. of
Sr Edw.
Aston,
Knight.
Edw., Elizabeth,
2 sonne. mard to
— Charles
Thomas, Somersett.
3 sonne.
Tho. Gresley=j=Catherin, da. of Steven,
of Draklowe
in Com.
Derby.
Jane, Elizabeth, 3 da.,
1 da. sans yssue.
Sr Tho. Walsing- 2 sonne
ham of Skadbury —
in Com. Kent, K., Hastinges, Mar., Grace, 4 da
superstes 1583. 3 sonne. 2 da.
Henry Gresley,
eldest sonne,
aitat. 4 annor'
1583.
George Gresley,
2 sonne.
John Gresley,
3 sonne.
Will'm Katherin, 1 da.
Gresley, —
fourth Katherin (sic),
sonne. 2 da.
Tho. Gresley.
86 THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
EX VALDE VETERI SCRIPTO IN PARGAMENO.
<Rc& sont partes tfauncrstrcs ifttonsr Stomas tit ©resclc}?.
Mons1' Will'm fitz de Nigell de Greseley.
Mons1' Rob't de Greseley et sa femme Basille.
Monsr Will'm de Greseley et Basille sa femme.
Mons1' Geffrey de Greseley et Marjory sa femme, fille a Matild. Somer-
ville dame de Cosington, et Julian sa autre femme de Leic.
Monsr Will'm de Greseley et Elizabeth sa femme, fille a John Bakepuz
S1' de Barton Bakepuz.
Monsr Geffrey de Greseley et Agnes sa femme.
Monsr Peris (sic) de Greseley et Johane sa femme, fille a Monsr Rob't
de Stafford Sr de Eginton et Moginton, Com. Derby.
Monsr Geffrey de Greseley et Margarite sa fem'e, fille a John Gernon
S1' de Laminton pres Oxenford.
11) E. 3. Mons1' John de Greseley et Alice sa fem'e, fille a Mons1' Roger
de Swiimerton.
Mons1' Nichole de Greseley et Thomasine sa fem'e, fille et heire a, Monsr
Thomas Gastneys Sr de Colton.
Monsr Thomas de Greisley et Margerite sa fem'e, fille a Mons1' Thomas
Walse Sr d'Onlep en co. Leic.
Ccs font parties tratmccstcrs flame &Jjomasme tit Sastntgs.
Mons1' Hardolph Gastneys et Ravenild et Betreh ses deux fem'es.
Monsr Rob't Gastneys et sa fem'e.
Monsr Phillip Gastneys et sa fem'e Amphelisia.
Mons1' Will'm Gastneys et Margaret sa femme.
Monsr Will'm Gastneys et sa femme.
Monsr Will'm Gastneys et Coustaunce sa fem'e.
Monsr John Gastneys et Isabelle sa fem'e, fille a Mons1' German Hay de
Com. de Werw. (?)
Monsr Will'm Gastneys ct Johanne sa femme, fille a Mons1' John Brett
de Norff.
Mons1' Thomas Gastneys et Johanne sa femme, fille a John Toly de
Wymondham.
Dame Thomasine, fille et lucres a diet' Mons1' Thomas Gastneys, et Dame
de Colton mariee a Mons1' Nioh' do Gi'eseley.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
87
(greMeforum <#temma attttqut&tmtmu
Nigillus pater istius Will', t'pe Will' Conquestoris, tenuit maneria
de Thorp, Kingesley, et Morton, in Com. Stafford, ut aparuit in libro
vocato Domesday, composito an0 20 regni regis Will, prsedic. et in
Scacario D'me Reginae adhuc sum'a cura reposito.
Will'm's filius Nigelli de Greiseley qui fundavit
monasteriu' de Greseley in Com. Derby, in
honorem S'c'i Georgii ; uxor ejus Elena.
Henricus de Greseley,
t'pe Will'm's Com. de
Ferrariis.
Rob'tus de Greseley,=pBasilia.
miles, t'pe W. Com.
de Ferr'.
Will'm's de Greseley, miles.=f=Basilia.
Margeria, filia Matildis de Somerville,=j=Galfridus de= Juliana, uxor
D'na de Cosington. J Greseley, s'c'da, de Com.
Port b., three (eagles displayed), seme miles D'n's Leycestr.
(of cross-crosslets) or. de Mortona.
Will'm's de Greseley,=pElizabetha, filia Joh'is Bakepuze, D'ni de Barton.
miles.
Bakepuze port g., 2 barres arg., 3 (horse-shoes) or
en le chef.
Galfridus de Greseley, miles.=p Agnes.
Petrus de Greseley ,=pJohanna, filia D'ni Rob'ti Stafford, D'ni de Egin-
miles.
ton et Meginton in Com. Derby.
Port or, cheveron g. entre 3 (martlets) sa,
Galfridus de Greseley ,=pMargareta, uxor ejus, filia Joh'is Gernon, militis,
Ar«
D'ni de Lanington juxta Oxoniam.
Port g., 3 pales und6 argeut.
Johanna, uxor s'c' da, = Johannes de=f= Alicia, filia Rogeri S winner ton,
sup. simul cum Greseley,
marito an'o 50 Ed. 3. miles.
militis, D'ni de Swinnerton.
sable.
Port ar., un croix pate forme flore
88 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Hardolfus Gastneys, miles, duas accepit uxores
Ravenhildani et Bertriciain.
Robertus Gastneys, miles vocatus Eob'ti filius Hardulfi.
Phili]3pus de Gastueis,* miles.^pMargareta.
Will'm's Gastneys, miles.=
Will'm's Gastneys, iniles.=pConstancia.
Joh'es Gastneys,=plsabella, filia German'i Hay de Acton in Com. Ebor,
miles.
Port or, en le chef g. 2 (estoiles) arg.
Will'm's Gastneys, miles, et Johanna uxor Joh'es, rector Eccl'ae
ejus filia d'ni Joh'is Brett de Com. Norff. de Cranwis, superstes
Port ar., bend g. billete ar. 10 Ed. 3.
Thomas Gastneys, miles, et Johanna uxor ejus, filia=f=
Johannis Toly de Wimondham, superstes 10 Ed. 3.
* This does not agree with the parchment roll, and is probably an error of the
copyist, for Lord llatherton's MS. gives the descent thus : —
Robertus.^
I
Philippus de Gastneys, miles.-r-Amphelisia, fil. et coh. Eob'ti Morley, niilitis.
I
Will'mus G., niiles.-pMargareta.
I
Will'mus G., miles =p. . . .
I
I
Will'mus G., miles.-r-Constancia.
4>
<&n$Uy.
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
89
Nicholaus=f=Thomasina, filia efc hasres Will'm's, Joh'es, Thomas,
de Grese-
ley, miles.
Thomas Gastneys, militis, siue p'le. sine sine p'le.
D'ni de Colton in Com. p'le.
de Staff.
Thomas de Greseley,=pMargareta, filia Thomse Walsch, militis, D'ni
miles, superstes an0
6 H. 4.
Donlep in Com. Leic.
Port g., 2 gemelles un baston en bend argent.
Joh'es de Gresley,=pMargeria, filia Thomas Clarell, militis,
miles. (Port g., 6 martlets ar.) genita ex Matilda,
filia Nicholai Montgomery, militis.
Joh'es de Greseley,=pAnna, filia Thomas Stanley de Elford,
miles. militis, in Com. Staff.
.... filia,
nupta
Simoni
Montfort
de Colsell.
Thomas de=f=Anna, filia Thomas
Greseley,
miles.
Ferrers de Tam-
worth, militis, in
Com. Warr.
.... filia,
nupta
Joh. Eger-
ton de
Wrinehill.
.... filia,
nupta
Thomas
Darrell de
Scoteney.
Will'm's Greseley,
miles, duxit Bene-
dictam filiam Hen.
Vernon de Had-
don in Com.Derb.,
militis, et obijt
sineexitulegithna.
Georgius de Grese-
ley, miles, duxit
primam uxorem
Margaretam filiam
Joh'is Mulschoe de
Fendon in Com.
Northamp.
-Catherina, Joh'es, cleri-
uxor secunda, cus, s.p.
filia Edwardi —
D'ni Dudley, Rob'tus,
militis Gar- 4 filius.
terii. —
Jacobus,
5 filius.
Will'm's de=pCatherin, filia
Greseley,
miles, D'n's
de Castro
Greseley et
de Colton.
Eclw. Aston,
militis, de
Ticksall in
Com. Staff.
Catherina,
nupta
Edwardo
Winter de
Com. Leic.
Edwardus,
2 filius.
Thomas,
3 filius.
Elizabetha,
nupta
Carolo de
Somersett.
90
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Thomas de Greseley,=pCatherina, filia
1 1
Simon,
1 1
Jan a,
1 1
Elizab., 3
Ar., D'n's de Castle
Tho. Walsing-
2 filius.
1 filia.
—
Greseley, Colton, et
ham de Skad-
—
—
Gracea, 4
Drakelowe, modo
bury in Com.
Hastin-
Maria, 2.
sup'stes an0 D'ni
Kantia3,militis.
gs,
1583.
3 filius.
Henricus de Greseley, Georgius, 2 filius. Catherina, 1 filia.
priinogenitus, astatis — —
4 annorum an0 1583. Joh'es, 3 filius. Catherina, 2 filia.
Will'm's, 4 filius.
Aems. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Azure, a garb or between three bezants,
two in /esse and one in base. [Grosvenor.] 2. Argent, a bend
sable between three mullets gules. [Clayton.] 3. Argent, on a
/esse cottised sable three escallops of the field. [Bushbury.]
Humfrey Grosevenour, a yonger brother*^
of the familie of Grosevenour of Eton in
Com. Cestr.
:. . . .f da. and heire of ... .
Clerke of Typton in Com.
Stafforde.
John Grosevenour of Bushbury^
in the Countye of Stafford, Esq1',
Justice of the peace & quorum.
:Rose, da. of John Clayton, by his wife
the da. and heire of Richarde Bush-
bury, and heire to them bo the.
* It is clear from the researches of the late well-known genealogist, Mr. Joseph
Morris of Shrewsbury, that the Grosvenors of Bushbury were not, as here and else-
where stated, a junior branch of the Grosvenors of Eaton. Ilumphrey Grosvenor,
who heads this pedigree, was of Farncote, Co. Salop, the son of William Grosvenor,
or Gravenor, of Broughton, in the parish of Claverley, and the descendant of a
family which derived its name from a place called Gravenor in the same parish.
A complete pedigree from Mr. Morris's MSS. will be found in the " Herald and
Genealogist," iv., 481, and v., 33.
t According to the Visitation of Warwickshire in 1619 this lady was " Jocosa
filia et cob. Joh'is Welles, al's Clarke, de Tibbington in Com. Staff." See also Harl.
MS. 6128, fo. 25b. Her sister Joan married Thomas Dudley of Tipton.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A|
91
James, 2 sonne,
sans yssue.
Kicharde, 3 sonne.
Henry,* 4 sonne,
sans yssue.
Elizabeth, maried to
Thomas Newman of
Honsworth in Com.
Stafforde.
Waiter Grosevenor of Buskbury=p Joyce, da. of John ( ? Roger)
in Com. Stafforde ; nowe livinge
1583.
Foulke of Gunston in Com.
Staford.
Walter, Thomas,
2 sonne. 4 sonne,
— sans yssue.
Josephe,
3 sonne.
Solomon,
5 sonne.
Gawin,f
6 sonne.
Sarah, eldeste.
Gertrude, 2.
Hester, 3.
Venice,
4 da.
Jonas,| eldeste sonne.
da. of ... . Kinnersley of Locksley.
Walter, eldest 2 sonne. Joyce.
pr me Walterum Grosvenor.
ffiarcoutt oi ©Intjan.
Arms. — Gules, two bars or.
Crest. — In a ducal coronet or a peacock proper.
Motto. — Le bon temps viendra.
Agnes, filia . . . .-
Darrell de Scote-
ney, uxor prima.
A
:Symon Harecourt de Staunton=. . . . uxor s'c'da
Harecourt in Com. Ox., miles, relicta .... York,
militis.
* Married Alice, dau. of Robert Whitgreave of Burton, Esq., and tlied sp
(Hatlierton MS., and Vis. Warw., 1619.)
t He was of Siltton Coldfield, and recorded a long pedigree at the Visitation of
Warwickshire taken in 1619, being then aged 53.
X The wife and issue of Jonas Grosvenor have evidently been inserted since 1583
for at the next Visitation of this County (taken in 1614) Jonas appeared and
recorded his descent, stating his wife to be Elizabeth, daughter of Humphrey Cotton
of Bold Rail, and his son by her (Walter) to be then aged 30. According to the
92
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Joh'es Hare-
court de
Staunton,
miles.
=Margareta, filia, et tandem
coheres, WiU'm Barantine
de Com. Oxon, militis,soro-
rem Francisci Barentine.
Edmundus.
* filia,
nupta ....
Cottesmore.
Gracea, filia Humfridi:
Fitzherberti de Upsall
in Com. Hertf ., relicta
Will. Robinson de
Drayton Basset, 2 uxor.
:Simon Harecourt de Staun-=
ton, Ar. ; uxor ejus tertia fuit
Jana, soror Joh'is Spenser,
mil., relicta Ric. Bruges de
Ludgarsall in Com. Hamp.,
militis.
Wilgef orta, filia, nupta.
:Maria, filia
Edw. Aston
de Ticksall
in Comitate
Stafford,
uxor 1.
Jana, filia getate maxima,
nupta Joh'i Grey de Envild
in Com. Staff., Ar.
Elizabetha, nupta Ric'o
Chambeiieyn de Astley
in Com. War.
3 I
Maria,
inupta.
1. Walterus Harecourt-
de Staunton in Com.
Oxon, et de Elenhall
in Com. Staff., Armi-
ger, modo superstes
1583.
-Dorothea, filia
Will'mi Robin-
son de Drayton
Bassett in
Com. Staff.
2. Joh'es Harecourte.
Rob'tus, 3, s.p.
4. Edwardus Harecourt.
Will'm's, 5.
Rob'tus Harecourt,
primogenitus, astat.
9 annorum 1583.
Michaell Jana, prima filia. Gracea, 3 filia,
Harecourt, — mortua in
2 filius. Elizabetha, 2 filia. teneris an'is.
Rob'tus Harecourt,
duxit Elizabetham,
relictam Robins,
civis et mercatoris,
London.
Michaell, duxit
.... filiam ....
Till ney, relictam
.... Grcneway
de Com. Buck.
4I
Edw., duxit
.... filia'
Windsore de
Com. Buck.,
relict' ....
Purfrey.
5|6|
Walterus et
Henricus,
sine p.
Kinnersley pedigree in the Warwickshire Visitation of 1619, Anne, daughter of
Thomas Kinnersley of Loxley, was the wife of Humphrey Cotton of Bold, and
therefore, it would appear, mother of the wife of Jonas Grosvenor.
* Florence, ux. Sir William Cotesmore. (Lord Hatherton's MS.)
T>a*amt&
Ear/ v ',",';■ Heraldic ErLoraverdcZondcn.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFOEDSHIEE, A.D. 1583. 93
Margaret, quae Anna, nupta .... Kuivet* Catherina, nupta
obiit virgo. cle Ashwellthorpe, postea Joli'i Herle de
— .... Bowier, custodi Ee- Sta'nton in Com.
Ursula, nupta cordor. Cxon.
.... Guisnes
de .... in Johanna, nupta .... Clark. Winefreda, nupta
Cora. Sussex. Antonio Greneway.
W. Haeecouet.
Compfotwntum grmoriale WLalttvi $arecourt Be ©Uenljalc
in Com. Stafford, Ermtgeru
1. Haeecouet. — Gules, two bars or.
2. Camville. — Azure, three lions passant in pale argent.
3. Nobll. — Or, fretty gules, a cant< n argent.
•4. Schaeeshull. — Barry nebulee of six argent and gules, within a
border sable bezantee.
5. Saintcleee. — Azure, the sun in its glory or.
6. Stapleton. — Argent, a lion rampant sable, charged on the shoulder
with an annulet or.
7. Bellewe. — Sable, fretty or.
8. Beits. — Argent, a lion rampant azure.
9. Fitzaxane. — Barry of eight or and gules.
10. Ingham. — Per pale or and vert, a cross moline counterchanged.
11. La Zouche. — Gules, a chevron argent between ten bezants, six
above and four below.
12. De la Pole. — Azure, on a fesse argent between three leopard's
faces or, an annulet sable.
13. Hastange. — Azure, a chief gules, over all a lion rampant double-
tailed argent.
14. Baeantine. — Sable, three eagles displayed argent.
15. Deayton. — Azure, a bend between six crosses crosslet fi tehee or.
1 6. Popham. — Argent, on a chief gules two buck's heads cabossed or.
17. Malines. — Ermine, on a fesse gules three billets or.
18. Reade. — Gules, on a bend wavy argent three ducks sable, beaked
and legged or.
19. Alphegh. — Argent, a fesse between three boar's heads couped close
sable.
20. Pettit. — Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three bugle-
horns stringed sable.
Post insignia Noeli ponerentur arma Beeke de Eresby ; sed quaare
attentius.
* John Knivet. (Lord Hatherton's MS.)
94 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Iii Lord Hatherton's MS. is this note : —
" D'n's Roraicius (or as some books hath Gervasius) Earle of Har-
court in Normandy, & his too brothers Geoffrey and Fulke, came in wth
the Conqueror & assisted him in the warres against Herauld. After
that the Duke of Normandy had won the Victory, the sayde Earle and
his 2d brother Geoffrey returned back agayne in to Normandy, but
Foulke remayned."
Will'm's Harecourt, miles, cui quidain Thomas=pJohanna,
Harecourt, miles, dedit M. de Ellenhalle sibi
et hajredibus masculis an'o 4 E. 3.
uxor ejus.
Thomas Harecourt, miles. =
Thomas Harecourt, miles, obiit seisitus de-
M. de Elenhalle 6 die Julij anno 8 H. 5.
Rob'tus Harecourt, setat. 10 annor' an'o 8 H. 5.
Thomas de Astley, junior,=i=Elizabetha, filia et hreres
t'pe R. 2, an'o 1 R. 2.
Harecourt, an'o 1 R. 2.
Thomas Astley, Armiger, sup'stes an'o 8 H. 6.
ffiarcourt of ftanton, tic.
Arms. — Gules, two bars or, on the upper bar a mullet sable.
Thomas Harecourt, miles.=j=
Rob'tus Harecourt.=j=
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
95
Rob tus,
sans . . .
masculo.
Aleonora Leuknell=j=Ricardus Hare-=pEditha, nx. p'ma,
(sic, but should be
Lewknor).
court, miles.
filia et kasres
Thomas St. Clere.
.... filia, nupta .... filia, nupta Elizabetha, nupta Christo-
.... Swinerton .... Lane de HugoniErdeswike pherus
de Swin'ton. Com. Staff. de Sandon. Hare-
— — — court.
.... filia, nupta .... filia, nupta .... filia, nupta
.... Wrotesley Ludford Bobe.
Simon Harecourt, miles, maritus filise .... Darrell de Scotney.
Joh'es.=F
Svrnon.=p
!
I
Walterus, nunc, 1583.
Thomas Harecourt de Ranton.=p. . . .filia Hugonis Eggerton deWrinehill.
.... filia, Johannes Hare-=f\ . . . filia Rad. Ricardus:
nupta Johanni court de Ranton Breareton de Harecourt
Peishall. Hall in Com. Malpas, de Church
Staf. Eaton.
= filia
Brodoke.
Thomas,
s.p.
"Walterus Harecourt, sup'stes 1583, de Tarn worth,
uxor ejus filia .... Cumberford.
Edwardus.
2. Symon, duxit=p 3. Ricardus, 4. Antonius, 5. Will'm's, duxit
.... filiam duxit duxit filia' et
Cave. filiam .... hosrede' ....
Clyve de Leftwiche de
Elizabetha, nupta Huxlegh. Wimoneham in
Ludford. Com. Cestr.
96
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
1 filia, nupta
Ruggeley
de Lons;don.
2 filia, nupta
.... Bronghton
de Longdou.
3 filia, nupta
.... Grey de
Doniuffton Parke.
Rob tus Harecourt de Kan ton hall,:
genuit hos spurios sequentes.
. . . filia .... Scryvin, s.p.
Joh'es Hare-=j=Margaretam,
court de Kan-
ton hall,
sup's tes 1583.
filia' Anthonii
Gibston de
Ridgley in
Com. Staf.
Humfridus Hare- Catherina.
court, p'genitus, —
eetat. 16 an'or' Elizabetha.
1583. —
Margareta.
Rob'te Harecourt=pMargareta',
de Bornighall in
Com. Staff.,
sup'stes 1583.
filiani
Collyns de
Lees in Com.
Staf.
Thomas Rob'te. Elizabetha.
Hare- —
court. Dorothea.
Margareta.
Anthonius Anna, nupta Maria,
Harecourt. Beneclicto nupta
— Wilson de Thomas
Edwardus Wolkscroft Collins.
Harecourt. in Com. —
Leic. Margareta.
Isabella, nupta Elizabetha,
Barnabe nupta Antonio
Clarke de
Wollaston
in Com. Staff.
Seystons de
Walton in
Com. Leicestr.
Dorothea.
This pedigree should be carefully compared with that printed in
vol. ii. of " Collections " (part ii., p. 70), and with Mr. Bridgeman's
remarks in vol. i., p. 382. According to Lord Hatherton's and other
MSS., Thomas Hareourt of Ranton, who married Hugh Egerton's
daughter, was the son of John Hareourt by Margaret, daughter of
William Bracy of Pembridge, co. Hereford, which John was son of Sir
Richard by his second wife, Eleanor Lewknor. In Lord Hatherton's
MS., and in the Harl. MSS. 1077, 1167, etc., a more full and complete
account of the Hareourt family is given ; but as all these pedigrees
require revision in their earlier descents, I have thought it best to
simply reproduce the genealogy as it is given in the Stukeley MS., which
I take to be the descent noted by Glover when he visited the county.
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
97
The pedigree, as given in the MSS. above referred to, commences with
Sir William Harcourt, who married Alice, "ladie of Ellenhall," living
11th John, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Noel of Ellenhall and
Ronton by Margaret his wife, sister of Guy L'Estrange. By the lady
of Ellenhall Sir William had issue Sir Richard, his son and heir, lord of
Stanton and Ellenhall, who married " Orabell, sister of Robert Quincy,
E. of Winchester." The editor of the fifth edition of Collius's "Peerage "
(1779, vol. v., p. 264), sub "Harcourt," refers to " The Visitation of
Staffordshire, anno 1583," as asserting that the above Sir Richard
married Orabella, daughter of Robert de Quincy. This is an example
of the loose way in which genealogical writers refer to Visitations. No
doubt what this writer quotes is one of the numerous so-called copies of
this Visitation existing in some public or private library, which may or
may not be reliable ; but to cite it as " the " Visitation is misleading.
Igatofecsi of &iu$aU.
Will'm Hawkes of=
Kyder minster in
Com. Salop (sic).
\Elizabeth. daughter and heire
of Richard Reignoldes of New-
ton in Com. Staff.
Thomas Hawkes of=pJohane, daughter of Richard Walker
Kydemrinster, and
after of Rushall in
Com. Staff.
by Catherine his wyf, daughter and
one of the heires of Thomas Harpur
of Dorlaston.
Richard:
Hawkes
of Rus-
hall in
Com.
Staff. ;
lyving
1583.
=Mary, daughter
of Roger Ban-
ester of Clare-
brough in Com.
Nott., and his
heire.
John
Hawkes,
2 sonne.
Anne, mar.
to Thomas
Carter, stu-
dent in the
Temple.
Catherine, first
mar. to — Har-
ward, after to
Nicholas Snow
of Richmond.
Hillary, eldest sonne, setatis 28, anno 1583.
Ryc. Hawks.
In Dugdale's copy of this Visitation, and also in the Harl. MS. 6128,
this family is called Hawkens, and the arms ascribed to them are those
of " Edge alias Hawkins " of Shropshire, viz., xlrgent, a hawk proper,
standing on a staff ragulee couped vert.
H
98
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
©01 of Utttle $uie.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Azure, a chevron between three fleurs-de-
lis or, a canton of the last. [Hill.] 2 and 3. Argent, ttvo bars
c/ules, each charged with three bezants, in chief a crescent azure.
[? Martyn.]
Crest. — A lion rampant argent, pierced through the breast ivith a spear,
in bend proper, headed gules.
[According to Lord Hatherton's MS., " This Armes was confyrmed,
and the Creaste gevyn by patent under the hande and seale of Garter
(Dethick) to John Hill, al's Hull, of Lyttell Pype, in Stafforre, an0 1560."]
Nicholas Hull, otherwise called Hill,=j=
of Litle Pipe in the Countie of Staf.
John Hyll* of Litle Pipe, to whome=pIsabell, da. of John Ellis of
Garter graunted these amies.
Kydall in Com. Ebor.
Hughe Hull, al's Hill,=pConstance, da. of
of Litle Pipe in Com.
Staff.: livinge 1583.
Ogle-
thorpe of Oglethorpe in Com.
Ebor.
John Hill, eldest=i=Dorothe, da. of Eob'te
sonne, setat. 32
anno 1583.
Fitzherberte of Tis-
sinffton.
Edwarde, eldest sonne.
•2
Thomas.
Elizabeth
3
Richarde.
Isabell.
4.
Frauncis.
2 sonne.
Joane.
Heugh Hill.
* It appears from a monumental inscription formerly in Lichfield Cathedral, a
copy of which is given hy Shaw (i., 355), that this John Hill died 4 March 1573,
aged 78, and that he was twice married — first to " Elizaheth da. of Thomas Ellys of
Yorkshire, esquier, which deceased in April 1559, and liad noe issue," and secondly
to Jane, daughter of John Francis of Eoremark, Esq. This is one of many examples
of the careless manner in which Visitation pedigrees were compiled. Here we have
a man actually attesting by his signature a document which asserts him to be the
son of a lady who, according to a monument (in all probability erected by himself),
" had noe issue " !
THE VISITATION OP STAFFOKDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
99
Burnett
Ricardus de Humett,=pAgnes.
Constabular' D. R.
Baro Will'm's de Simily,=
vocat Jordanum de
Humet fr'em suu'.
Will'm's de Humet,=f=Juliana, filia et
Constabularius D'ni
H. Regis Anglor',
D'n's de Stanford.
cob. seres Rio'i de
la Hay, Consta-
bulary Castri de
Lincoln.
Jordanus de-
Similli, nepos
Will'mi de
Hum', Con-
stabularij.
Ricardus de
Hum', Con-
stabularius
R. t'pe R.
p'mi.
Thomas Agnes, filia WiH'mi=p
de Hum', de Humez, nupta
— D'no Baldwino
Engramus Wake.
de Hum'.
Will'm's de Simely. Baldwinus Wake.
Enger' de Hum'.
Jordanus de Hum'.=F
Will'm's, nepos Will'mi Joh'es de Humet, Johannes de=j=Hawisia.
Constabularij. nepos W.Constabl'. Humets.
.... filia, ut opinor, nupta D'no Grey de Codnore
qui per illam fuit D'n's de Shyringhain.
Robertus Marmyon, =p Philippa,
D'n's de Tamworth. uxor.
Ricardus de Humet, Will'm's =p Henricus
Constabularius anno de Say. de Humet.
p'mo R. 1. ^Jn
H 2
100
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Hunt ol ©a^ton.
Arms. — Azure, a lend between six leopard's faces or*
Rob'te Hunte of Stoake=rDerverguld, the da. of Sr Everarde
Aubeny in Com. North.
Digby of Eyre Stoke in Corn. Rut.,
Knight.
John Hunte of Lyndon in Com.=f= Amice, the da. of Sr Thomas
Rutl. ; livinge 1585
Cave, Knighte.
Thomas,
3 sonne.
Frauncis,
4 sonne.
Gertrude, wife
to Henry
Sacheverell of
Resby in Com.
Leic. ; after
mar. to Thomas
Lany of Suf-
folke.
Susan, mar.
to Rychard
Frauncis of
Tikenhull
in Com.
Derby.
Dorothe,
mar. to
Nicholas
Lusher
of Shol-
lande in
Surrey.
Margarette,
mar. to Andrewe
Reynes of Bar-
rowe in Com.
Leicester, sonne
of Rob'te
Reynes.
RetnigeHunte,=pElizabeth, the John Hunte of Cay-=j=Mary,the da; of
eldest sonne ;
livinge 1585.
da. of Rob't
Reynes of
London.
ton in the Countie of
Staford ; livinge
1585, 2 sonne.
Nicholas Lusher
of Shollande in
Com. Surrey.
Thomas,
eldest.
Frauncis,
2 sonne.
John,
3 sonne.
Amice.
Anne.
John, eldest Rob'te,
sonne, setat. 2 sonne.
2an'o'1585.
John Hunt, junior.
* In the "Visitation of Rutland," 1618-19 (Harleian Society's edition, p. 14), these
arms (together with the crest, a leopard's head between two wings expanded or) are
stated to have been granted to " John Hunt of Lindon in Com. Rutland, Esq., by
.Robert Cooke, Clar., 20 July 1585, 27 Q. Elizabeth." I take it, therefore, that this
pedigree was not recorded by Glover on circuit, but entered in the Visitation book
when the arms were granted, two years later.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 101
UriSft Of Sltuftaa.
Rob'tus Legh de Adlington.=pMatildis de Norley.
Margareta=j=Petrus=j=Cecilia, filia Thomas del Hugh, forsan
Danyers.
Legh.
Joh'is de Hugh, concubiua.
Petrus Legh, =p Johauna Johannes=p Alicia, filia ethasres
miles.
Haydocke. Legh.
. . Alcocke del
Rugge.
Rogerus Legh=pHelena. Ricardus* Joh'es=p
del Rudge. Legh. Legh. I
Rogerus.=pElizabetha. Rad's Legh de Stockwell,=p Elizabetha
obijt 1435.
Langley.
Rogerus.=pMaria Joh'es Legh de Stockwell,:
Sparks. miles, obijt 1523.
Joh'es.=p
I
filia, nupta .... Paston.
Joh'es Legh de Rudge, modo sup'stes 1583.
Roger Leghe.f:
Will'm Leghe=pElizabeth, da. Roger Leghe, Sr Thomas -p. ... da.
de Wellington
in Com. Salop,
gent' huisher
to K. Henry
8.
A
and soale heire seconde sonne, Leghe,
of . . .4 Har- gent' huisher Mayor of
pur of Ruishall to the Ladye London,
in Com. Staf- Mary, after
forde. Queene ; sans
yssue. b
of
Barker. §
* Father of Roger, who heads the next pedigree. (Hatherton MS.)
t Sou of Richard. (lb.)
% John Harpur. (lb.)
§ Alice, dau. of John Barker of Shropshire. (lb.)
102 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORD SHIEE, A.D. 1583.
A I B
Rowland Leghe,-
mar. to his 2
wife, .... da.
of Sr Richard
Barkeley, & hath
yssue.
=. . . . da. Richarde Leghe.
of —
Lowe of Thomas Leghe,
London, mar.Catherin,da.
first of Sr John Spen-
wife. cer.
Will'm= da. of
Leghe. James
Harington
of Exton.
A daughter, mar. to
Hanmer.
1
Henry Leghe of Ruishall=j
in Com. Staforde, Armi-
ger.*
=Catherin, eldest da. and coheire of
Sr John Dunham of Kirklinton in
Com. Notts, Knight.
Will'm Godfrey, John, 4 sonne, s.p. Elizabeth, mar. to Mary,
Leghe, 3 sonne, — George Harecourte s.p.
2 sonne, sans Thomas, 5 sonne. of Dadlington in
sans yssue. — Com. Leic.
yssue. John, 7 (sic) sonne.
Edwarde Leghe of Ruishall;=pAnne, seconde da. of Sr John Farmour
no we livinge 1583.
of Eston in Com. North.
Henry Leghe, Lewies, 2 sonne. Maulde, Anne, 3 d. Fraun-
eldest sonne, — eldest — cis, 6 d.
a3tat.l4an'or' Richarde, 3 sonne. daughter. Howarde,4d. —
1583. — — — Dorothe,
Edwarde, 4 sonne. Catherin, Elizabeth, 7 d.
2 daugh- 5 d.
ter.
Edward Leigh.
&ompIcmentum &rmoriale ©Utoartft fLe'gfj Be Etusfjan in
Com. Staff., ct tit Sijatfjctoril in Com. ILctcrst., ^rmtger.
1. Leighe. — Gules, a cross engrailed argent, in the first quarter an
escutcheon of the last, thereon two bars azure, debruised by a
bend componee ; on the cross a mullet for difference.
* " God-child to King Henry 8. Died out of his witts." (Hatherton MS.)
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 103
•n FS ' f Sable, a fesse, and in chief three lozenges argent.
' Hatcpttr ' i Urgent, a non rampant in a border engrailed sable.
4. Hanbury. — Azure, a chevron or, in chief a lion passant of the last.
5. Hownhill. — Vert, six talbots passant, 3, 2, and 1, argent.
6. Cocke. — Argent, a bend azure, in the sinister chief an annulet of
the last.
7. Allesley. — Vert, three chevrons interlaced in base or, a chief
argent.
8. Bromley. — Quarterly per fesse indented gules and or, an ines-
cutcheon argent, charged with a griffin segreant vert.
9. Chetleton. — Argent, on a chevron within a border engrailed
gules five bezants.
10. Clayton. — Argent, on a fesse sable between six fleurs-de-lis gules
three crosses crosslet or.
11. Prayers. — Gules, a scythe argent, blade in chief, enclosing three
fleurs-de-lis, 2 and 1, of the last.
12. Whetenhalle. — Vert, a cross engrailed ermine.
13. Bulkley. — Sable, on a chevron between three bull's heads cabossed
argent as many mullets gules.
14. Henstall. — Quarterly gules and sable, in the second and third
quarters a fleur-de-lis argent, over all a bendlet of the last.
15. Hewett. — Sable, a chevron engrailed between three owls argent.
16. Bromley. — Quarterly per fesse indented gules and or.
17. Dunham. — Azure, on a chief indented or a label of three points
gules.
18. Bowett. — Argent, a cinquefoil between three reindeer's heads
cabossed sable.
19. Zouche. — Gules, ten bezants, on a canton ermine a crescent ....
20. Burghe. — Argent, on a fesse dancettee sable three bezants.
21. Bellewe.— Sable, fretty or.
Uriflk afcua&an, JSntole*, etc.
Arms. — Argent, a lion rampant within a border engrailed sable.
Nigillus de Rushall, D'n's de Rushall,=f=
t'pe conquestus Anglige, et antea.
Osbertus de Rushall, Alius et haares Nigilli.=p
Ricardus de Rushall, de familia regis H. 2, cui=
idem Rex dedit M. de Rowley, juxta Dudley.
A
104
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Ricardus de Rushall, junior, de familia Regis Joh'is=j=
cui idem Rex an'o regni sui 2d0 eonfirniavit M. de
Rowley ; qui obijt iu Guyenna t'pe regis H. 3.
Hugo le Bowelles, miles,=pAlicia, filia et hasres Ricardi
de familia regis H. 3.
de Rushall, j unions.
Will' rn's de Boweles,:
films et hseres, obijt
paulo ante mortem
E. primi.
rAlicia, filia Laurenci Henricus-
de Anneford de Com. Hambury,
Wigorn., militis, j uxta Armiger.
Hales Owayn.
Will'ra's le Boweles,=j= Agnes, filia astate
D'n's de Rushall,
sup'stes 7 E. 3.
maxima Henri ci
Hambury, Ar.
Henricus
Hambury,
miles.
Will'm's Boweles, D'n's de=j=Elizabetha, filia Joh'is=WiH'us Coleson,
Rushall, obijt in magna
pestilentia.
Gifford, militis, D'ni s'c'd's maritus,
de Chilinton.
Johannes Hewet=pCatherina, filia=j=Rob'tus Grobbere, Ar., s'd's maritus.
de Walsall, Ar.
et hasres.
(Sable, a fesse, and iu chief three
lozenges argent.)
Eliza- = Thomas
betha. Hexstall,
Armiger.
Marga-= Will'm's
reta. Stokeley,*
Armiger.
Will'm's Grobbere, duxit=
Catherinam,filiam WiU'mi
Walsall, Armigeri. Hie
Will'm's Grobbere vocaba-
tur Will'm's de Rushall,
et fuit Hostarius aulas
regis R. 2.
Liberi duo obierunt sine exitu.
* This William Stokeley was of Yoxall. His grandson, Thomas Stokeley of
Toxall,. had issue two daughters, his coheirs — viz., Joane, married to Richard Gres-
wolde of Solihull, co. Warwick ; and Elizabeth, wife of .Richard Salt of Yoxall
(Vis. Warw. 1619, etc.)
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
105
Catherina^WiU'in's Grobbere, aliter d'c's Wiirin's=pAlicia, filia
filia Will'mi
Walsall,
Armigeri ;
us. 1.
de Kushall, hostiarius Anise regis R. 2,
obijt 1429 ; uxor 3, Elizab., filia Joh'is
Rolston de Rolston juxta Tutbury,
obiit 1430. =f
Galfride Ive
de Henley
in Com. War.;
ux. s'c'da.
Liberi duo, Jacobus de Eleanor, filia et hasres, nupta Liberi
sine exitu. Rusball, Joh'i Harpur, Ar., qui obijt tres, sine
qui obijt 3 die Julij An0 D'ni 1464. exitu.
circa an' 14 D'n's de Rush all.
aetat' sui. =f
Joh'es Cocke de Lilleburne.=
Henricus=p. . . . filia et hasres Galfridi Allesley de
Cocke.
Com. War., militis.
Margareta, filia et haeres Hen. Cocke.=j=Will'm's Harpur, D'n's de
| Ruisball.
Johannes Harpur,=pMargareta, filia et una haaredum Joh'is Bromley,
miles. I militis.
Rob tusr
Harpur,
filius et
hasres.
Thomas=FDorothea. Will'm's Legh=pElizabetha,
Hoorde.
de Shawell in soror et altera
Com. Leicest.
et de Rusball
in Com. Staff.
hasredu' Rob'ti
Harpur.
Antonius=. . . . filia =Ricardus
Kingston, et hasres. Egerton,
miles. miles.
Francisca, filia et hasres, nupta
Thomas Farmour, et ipsa obijt
sine exitu.
Sir Nicholas Bowett, z
Kl, of Ryppinghall.
'-Elizabeth, da. & h. of John Souche of
KyrTclington.
(Gules, 10 bezants fy a canton ermine, on
the latter a crescent azure.)
Marg1, da.=
& one of
the he ires of
Sir Nich.
Bowett.
John Chmvorth,
brother to Sr
Will. ; second
sonne.
Sir John'
Dunham,
2d hns-
bande.
A
--Elizabeth, da.= Will,
<£ one of the Chaworth,
heires of Sir Kl ; 1st
Nicholas husbands.
Bowett, b
106
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A|
John Dunham of KirtlingtonFf-Benedicta, da. Elizabeth, mar. to
{Azure, on a chief indented or,
a label of 3 jioints gules.)
of
jambe.
Fol-
Richard Bassett
of Fledborough.
Mary, mar. to Tho.
Grantham of Lincoln.
Anne, mar. to George
Meverell of Throwley.
Frauncis,
mar. to
John
Hasyl-
wood.
Catherina, filia fetate^Henricus
maxima, et una 4
hser' Joh'is Dunham
de Kirklinton in
Com. Not., militis.
Legh de
Shawell
et de
Rushall.
Edwardus Legh de Eushall in Com. Staff., modo sup'stes 1583.
The portion in italics is from Lord Hatlierton's MS.
Hebron of awofbnlmmpton.
Arms. — Quarterly azure and gules, three sinister hands couped at the
wrist argent.
Crest. — An arm embowed in armour argent, garnished or, holding in the
gauntlet a battle-axe, handle gules, head argent, garnished or.
Crista concessa Johanni Lewson de Wolv'hampton, per Laurencium
Dalton, Norrey, per l'res patentee dat. 6 Novembris anno 4 Reginse
Elizabethae.
Richard Leveson* of Wilenhall in=p Margerye, da. of ... . Hervy
the parish of Wolv'hampton in
Com. Staff. ; living 27 Ed. I.
filz Clemente of Wolv'hampton.
Richard Leveson, to whome=p John
his parents gave the landes Leveson.j
in Wolverhampton. a
Geffrey Leveson,
yongest sonne.
* Son of John, and grandson of Richard, by Agnes, dau. of William Clement,
"and his heire." (Hathcrton MS.)
t The Hathcrton MS. styles him eldest son, and gives his descendants down to
Richard Lcweson of Prcstwood, " lyving 7 H. 1 & 18 II. 7," who married " Jane, d.
& h. of Tho. Bradbury, K', Mayor of London," and had issue Nicholas, s. and h.,
and James of " Lylleshall in Com. Staff." But see Shaw, ii., 169, where the descent
is given differently.
Jtftosiro..
Harry Solute. Hsrzddic-ETioraverJicZondori
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 107
Al
Richard Leveson of Wolv'hanipton.=i=Christian, da. of
Richard Leveson, Will'm Leveson,=pJoane, da.
eldest sonne, s.p. 2 sonne.
of
Richarde Leveson.=Julian, da. of . . .
Will'm Leveson of Wolv'hampton, cosin and heire=j=Isabell, da.
to Richard his greate uncle, 5 H. 6. of .
Richard Leveson of Wolv'harnpton.=f= Joyce, da. of Foulke Birmingham.
Will'm Leveson,=p. . . .* da. and heire Foulke Leveson of Wolver-
3 sonne. of ... . Bushburrye. hampton, eldest sonne, s.p.
John Leveson of Worley=f=Elizabeth, da. of Roger Foulke
Parva in Com. Staff. of Brewoode in Com. Stafford.
John Leveson, =. ... da. of John Thomas, Margaret, Joyce,
eldest sonne. Bretayne of Tam- 2 sonne. eldest, —
worth. — mar. Mary.
Richard,
3 sonne.
Walter Leveson, heire of his=p Elizabeth, da. of ... . Arden
brother Foulke, 5 H. 7.
of Parkhall in Com. Warw.
Elizabeth, Thomas Leveson=pAnne, da. of Rich. Wrothesley,
mar. to of Wolv'hampton,
Woodshawe. eldest sonne.
sister to Walter of Wrothesley.
Jane, da. = Richard Poultney of Misterton, 2 sonne
and heire. of Sr Tho. Poultneye.
* She was Helena, dau. and coheir of John Clayton of Harwood Parva, Co.
Lancaster, by the heiress of Bushbury, and sister of Eose, the wife of John Grosvenor.
See Shaw, ii., 178 ; Dugdale's " Warwickshire," etc.
108
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
John Leveson of=f=Joyce, da. of John Ashfeilde
Wolv'hampton,
by thentayle.
of Eythorpe in Com. Oxon.
Margaret, mar. to
Rich. Rydley of
Wolv'hainpton.
Thomas Leveson=pMary, da. of Walter, 2 sonne, s.p. Anne.maried
of Wolv'hamp- Sr Eoberte — to Roberte
Brooke, Lord Michaell, 3 sonne, s.p. Stamforde,
Cheife Justice — sonne and
of the Com'on John, 4 sonne. heire to Jus-
Pleas, tice Stam-
forde.
ton, Esq1' ; nowe
livino-e 1583.
Edwarde, Walter, 2 sonne. Joyce,
eldest sonne, — eldest,
setat. 20 Richard, 3 sonne. —
an'or' 1583. — Eleanor,
Thomas, 4 sonne. second.
Martha,
thirde.
Anne,
fourth.
Margaret,
fifthe.
Elizabeth,
sixthe.
Thomas Leveson.
Littleton of $«laton ©an.
Thomas Littleton.
filia et hseres .... Quatremains.
filia=pThomas
et haeres.
Westcott.
Joh'es Burley,=
miles.
:. . . . filia Ric'di
Grey de Wilton.
Thomas Westcott, aliter=j=Johanna, filia et Elizabetha, hasres altera,
d'c'us Litleton, Justici-
arius de Banco reg-is.
imu haeredu' Joh'is nupta Joh'i Trussell,
Bnrley, militis. militis.
Anna, uxor Johannis Comitis Oxon.===
Elena, filia et una lucredum^pWiirm's Litleton=pMaria, filia
Thomaj Welshe et Margernc
uxoris sua3.
A
de Frankley,
primogenitus.
Whitiugton,
uxor s'e'da.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
109
A|
Johanna, hares maternas hereditaria,
nupta Joh'i Aston, militi.
Johannes=pElizabetha, filia et
Litleton
de Frank-
ley.
una hreredum Gil-
bert! Talbot de
Grafton, militis.
Johannes1
Litleton
de Frank-
ley, miles.
:Brigida,
filiaetuna
haeredu'
Joh'is
Pakinton,
militis.
Edwardus.
Gilbertus.
Margareta,
nupta Edw.
Newport de
Henkley
[Hanley].
Rogerus Litleton,
duxit Elizabetham,
filiam Joh. Stan-
ley de Westbrom-
wiche.
Gilbertus=pElizabetha, filia Geor-
Litleton
deFrank-
ley.
Humfridi gius.
Coningesby de —
Hampton. Fran-
ciscus.
Eliza-
betha.
Geor-
gius.
Briffida.
Marga- Fran-
reta. ciscus.
Johannes Litleton.
Ricardus=j=Alicia, unica filia et hteres
Litleton,
s'c'd's
Alius.
TVill'mi Winnesbury.
(Or, a fesse counter-componee
argent and gules, a chief
indented azure.)
Thomas-
Li tleton,
3 Alius.
:Anna, filia et hares
Joh'is Botreux de
Salford in Com.
Warw.
Matildis,=Thomas= filia . .
ux. p'ma. Litle- Hunkes de
ton.
North wiche.
Johannes,
prasstitor
(sic).
Antho- Margareta.
nius. —
Katerina.
Lucia. Margeria.
Elena. Anna.
Elena, filia1
Humfridi
Swinner-
ton, uxor
prima.
D
I
:Edwardus Litleton, = Isabella Wood,
miles, obijt 10 filia Roberti
Octobris 1558. Hill, uxor
secunda.
110
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
1 1
Edwardus=FAlicia, filia Ric'dus.
1
Constancia,
1
Barbara, ux.
Litleton,
Francisci
ux. Jacobi
Henrici Gower,
miles,
Coken de
Foljambe,
postea Johan-
obijt 19
Ashborne,
militis.
nis Folyot.
Julij
sor. Thomas
1574.
Cokeyne,mil.
Edwardus Litle-=Margareta,
1 1
Thomas. Constan-
1 i II
Maria. Gracea.
ton de Pilleton- filia et
—
cia, ux.
— —
hallinCom.Staff., cohasres
Jaco-
Thomas
Jana. Marga-
modo sup'stes Will'mi
bus.
Holt de
reta.
1583. Devereux,
Com.
militis.
Lane, Ar.
. . . Lyseux.=
Johannes de Lyseux^Isabella, Elizabetha,
miles, D'n's de Fled- ux. ejus. soror Joh'is,
burgh 1359, 33 Ed.3. 1359.
Rob tus=r= Will'm's i Hugo de Lyseux,= Beatrix, ux., Jacobus
Basset,
1359.
Basset, obijt ante patrem. sup'vivit, de Lyseux,
1359. 1359. 1359.
Ricardus Basset, nepos Will'mi, 1359.
Joh'es de Lyseux intalliavit M. suu' de Fledburgh et alias terras
suas, infra scriptis, anno D'ni 1359, anno 33 E. 3.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Ill
JHcWtoficfiJ of Mntv.
Arms. — Gules, a cross engrailed ermine.
Johannes de Macclesfeild=j=Catherina de Kingesley, filia
de Maclesfeld. Joh'is Kingesley de . . . .
Rad's de Maclesfeld.=j=Margareta, filia Nicholaus de
Henrici Erdeswick. Maclesfeld.
2. Johannes de
Macclesfeld.
Ricardus de Maccles-=^=Julian, filia Joh'is Alicia.
feld de Newport in
Com. Salop.
Salter de Newport
in Com. Salop.
Franciscus de=pCatherina, filia "Will' mi Fowke
Macclesfeld. de Brewood in Com. Staf.
Rad's de Macclesfeld=pHelena, filia Joh'is Elizabetha, nupta Rad'o
de Meare in Com. Staff., j Fitton de Batterley, Sutton de Aldelin in
modo sup'stes anno I et una hasredu'. Com. Cestrige.
1583.
Will'm's de=T=Ursula, filia
1
Edwardus
III III
Joh'es, 3 filius. Margeria.
Macclesfeld
Francisci
Macclesfeld,
— —
de Meare in
Roos de
2 filius, de
Humfridus, Margareta.
Com. Staf.,
Laxton in
Milcott in
4 filius. —
sup'stes
Com. Nott.
Com.Warw.,
— Catherina.
1583.
duxit ....
filiam ....
Watton de
Com. Kantiae.
Andreas, 5 filius.
Petrus Macclesfeld,
1
Symon, Elizabetha, Elena, 2.
p'mogenitus, aetat'
2 filius. p
ma filia. —
6 annor' 1583.
Sussanna, 3 filia
W. Maclesfeld.
112 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Nos Humfridus Comes Buck., Heref., Staff., North., et de Perch,
dedinms Rad'o Macclesfeild, filio Jolris Macclesfeild, senioris, maneriu'
n'r'm de Mere, ac o'ia ten' et ten' n'ra in Mere, Radwood, Mereway,
Sydway, Aston, Chesterton, Audley, Milburgh, Bernigeshalle, Berthertes,
et Stretton, &c. Habend. praefato Rad'o Macclesfeild et haeredibus de
corpore suo exeunt' ; pro defectu rem'd' Nicho' Macclesfeilde, fratris
praed'ct' Rad'i, &c. ; pro defectu rem' nobis prsefato Comiti, &c. Dat'
apud Stafford an0 21 H. 6.
An Indenture made betwene Hughe Erdeswike, Esq1", on the one
parte, and Richard Cliffe and Margaret his wife on the other p'te,
witnesseth that the sayde Hugh hath boughte of the sayde Ricbarde
and of his wife the marriage, wth the . . . ., of Richarde, sonne and
heire of Rawlin Maxfeilde, &c. Dated an0 9 E. 4.
An Indenture, be'inge date the 9 of K. Henry 8, betwene John
Salter, Richard Maxfeilde, and Frauncis Maxfelde, gent., on the one
partie, and John Fytton of Audley, Esq1', on the other p'tie, witnesseth
that it is agreed betwene them that Raulf Maxfeilde, sonne and heire
aparente of the sayde Frauncis, sball inary Ellen the da. of the sayde
John Fytton, if the Lawe of the Churche will suffer it.
An Indenture, bearinge date anno 10 E. 4, betweene Hughe Erdes-
wike, Esqr, on the one parte, and John Salter of Newporte, gent., on the
other p'te, witnesseth that Richard Maxfeilde, sonne and heire to
Rawlin Maxfeilde, shall take to wife one Jullyan, da. to the sayde John
Salter.
An Indenture, bearinge date an'o 18 H. 7, betwene Richarde Max-
feilde of Newporte in the Countie of Salop, gent., and Francis Maxfeilde,
sonne and heire aparente unto the same Richarde, on the one p'tie, and
Will' m Fowke of Brewood on the other p'te, witnesseth that the sayde
Frauncis shall take to wife Katherin, da. of the sayde Will'm Fowke of
Brewood, &c.
Indentura inter Rad. Macclesfeilde de Meyre in Com. Staff., gent.,
et Franciscu' Roos de Swineshed in Com' praed', Ar'g', testatur quod
Will'm's Macclesfeild, films et hasres aparens praed'c'i Rad'i, duxit in
uxorem Ursulam, filiam prsed'c'i Francisci Roos, &c. Dat' an'o 15
reginEe Elizab.
fflaittteanttjj,
ffarry Sonne. S£ra2dicE7iprayer£aZondan
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
113
JHatntoariujj ot etftfjitmort.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, two bars gules. [Mainwaring.]
2 and 3. Gules, a scythe argent* In the centre a mullet for
difference.
Crest. — An ass's head erased proper, bridled argent, charged with a
mullet for difference.
Sr John Mainwairinge=pCatherin, da. of Will'm
of Pever, K*. Honforde of Honforde.
Sr Randolphe Edinond, Will'm,
Mainewair- 2sonne,s.p. 4sonne,
inge of Piver, — s.p.
Knight. Nicholas,
3 sonne, s.p.
Ill
Three da.
Sr John, Peres, Thomas
a preist, 6 sonne, Main-
5 sonne. s.p. wairinge
of Can-
terbury.
Phillippe Mayn-=j=Anne, da. of Edwarde Main wair-=p Alice, da. & heire
wairinge, 7 sonne,
Lord of Pyver,
1583.
Sr Raulf
Leicester.
inge of Whitmore in
Com. Staff., nowe
livinge 1583, Esqr.
of Rob't Boghey
of Whitmore in
Com. Staff.
Randulphe Edmonde, 2 sonne. Edwarde^Jane, da. of Anne, mar,
Mainwair
inge, astat. Thomas, 3 sonne
xi annor' —
1583. Edwarde, 4 sonne. heire.
Main-
wairinge,
sonne &
Mathew
Cradocke
of Staff.,
merchant.
to Thomas
Roosse of
Weston
in Com.
Notts.
Edwarde, eldest John, 2 Mary, Elizab., Alice, 3 da. Anne, 4 da.
sonne. sonne. 1 da. 2 da.
Edward Manwairinge.
* This quartering is usually stated to be for Boghey, but it is manifestly Praers.
There was a match temp. Edw. III. between a coheiress of Praers and an ancestor of
Edward Mainwaring, but as the issue of this marriage failed, and the line was
carried on by the descendants of a second marriage, the coat of Praers could not be
legitimately quartered by this family. But as a matter of fact it was so quartered,
and the Heralds seem to have definitely assigned it to Boghey, and thus accounted
for its appearance in the Mainwaring atchievement. It was allowed by Dugdale at
his Visitation in 1663 to the then Edward Mainwaring of "Whitmore.
114
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Arms.
JHorrton of iSloretoit anti Enjjlcton.
— Quarterly — 1. Argent, a chevron gules between three square
buckles sable, a crescent on the chevron for difference. [Moreton.]
2. Quarterly, 1 and 4, Ermine ; 2 and 3, Paly or and gules; all
within a plain border azure, a crescent for difference. [Knightley.]
3. Azure, a buck's head cabossed or. [Colover.] 4. Argent,
on a salt ire sable five ducks of the field, beaked gules. [Burgh.]
Mathewe Moreton=F. . . .* daughter of .
of Moreton
Com. Stafforde.
in
. Knightley,
and his heire, a yonger brother of
the house of Knightley.
Johnf1
More-
ton of
More-
ton.
-. . . . daughter
of ... . Downe
of Flaxyardes
and Utkington,
in Com. Cestr.
Thomas More-=pMargery, da. of
tonoflnpjeton
2 sonne.
John,
. . . . Shepparde 3 sonne,
of Okeley in a preiste.
Com. Staforde.
Thomas More-=pMary, da. of
ton
ton.
of More-
Hinton of Hinton
in Com. Salop.
Adame Moreton of Moreton, Esqr
nowe livinge 1583.$
Elizabeth, mar.
to Thomas
Stapleton of
Littlewood.
Joyce, mar. to
Thomas Row-
ley of Hekeley.
Alice, mar. to
George Per-
sons of Sam-
borne in Com.
War.
Jane, mar. to
John Home of
Stoke in Com.
Warw.
Mathewe Moreton=p Alice, da. of Tho. Dickens
of Ingleton.
of Morehall in Com. Staff.,
& heire to her mother.
Richarde Moreton of
Ingleton ; livinge
1583.
Edwarde Moreton
of Ingleton in Com.
Staff. ; livinge
1583.
Alice, mar.
to Will.
Dickens.
Isabell, mar.
to John
Egginton of
Roberston in
Com. Staff.
Mary,
3 da.
Constance,
4 da.
Margarett,
5 da.
Edward Moreton.
* She was Isabella, daughter and heir of Robert Knightley of Engleton. See
the great pedigree of Knightley printed in Howard's " Mis. Gen. et Her.," i., 97.
t James. (Hathcrton MS.)
% It is added in the Stukeley MS., in Mr. Booth's handwriting, that this Adam
died without legitimate issue, and that he had " one base daughter only, inarr. to
Thomas Littleton, brother to Sr Edw. Littleton."
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
115
iffloMeK, or JHotolteleg, of 3StMott,
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Sable, on a chevron between three mill-picks
argent as many mullets gules. [Moseley.] 2 and 3. Argent, on:.
a /esse sable three escallops or. [Blithe.]
1
Rob'te Schampion, Lord of
1
Will'm
John Mow-=f=
Sardon, dyed sans yssue.
Scham-
lisley, Lorde
<
(Argent, a chevron between
pion,
of Mowlis-
three escallops sable.)
2 sonne.
ley.
Felis, sister
of Rob'te
Schampion.
Will'm Mowlisley.=j=Joane, da. of Sr Roger Hyllary.
(Argent, senile of crosses-crosslet
fitchee, three fleurs-de-lis sable.)
John Mowlisley.=pChristian, da. and heire of Rob't Costliffe and
Catherin his wife, sister to Sr Adam of Persall.
Roger Mowlisley .=j=Agnes, da. of John Bate of Longam ; wch John
came of the sister of the Colmans.
Port ar., fes. g., three mullets or, costed wth sa.
John Mowlisley .=pMargaret, da. and heire of Thomas Blithe.
| Port ar., fesse sa., three escallops or.
"Will'm Mowlisley, the last man=plsabell, da. of Will'm
in the oulde Pedearee. Harecourte.
Cornelius Mowlisley of Bilston in parochia=f=Eleanor, da. of Rob'te Speche-
de Wolv'hampton in Com. Staff.
ley of Worcestershire.
Rob'te Mowlisley of=j=Awdrey, da. of Will'm
Bilston in Com.
Stafforde ; nowe
livinge 1583.
Wirley of Hampsted ;
sister to Thomas Wir-
ley, nowe the Justice.
Elizabeth, mar. to
Richall Toll of
Toll in Com. Staf-
forde.
Will'm Mowlisley, t
set. 23 an'or' 1583.
Margarete,
eldest da.
Elizabeth,
2 da.
Robert Mosseley, ancyently Mowllesley.
* "Ex Rotulo in Pargameno Antiquo." (Hatherton MS.)
f Married " Lucrecia, da. of Tho. Whitgreve." (lb.)
I 2
116
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Hcbill of ^Ijnt^tone,
Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Gules, a saltire argent, charged in the centre with
a pellet. [Nevill.] 2. Gules, a /esse between six crosses-crosstet
or. [Beauchamp.] 3. Cheeky or and azure, a chevron ermine.
[Warwick.] 4. Gules, a chevron between ten crosses pattee, six
above and four below, argent. [Berkeley.] 5. Gules, a lion
passant guardant argent, crowned or. [Lisle.] 6. Argent, a
chevron gules. [Tyes.] Over all a crescent for difference.
Crest. — A griffin passant ....
Sr George Nevill, Lorde Latimer,1
yonger sonne to Raulf, the first
Earle of Westmerlande.
:Elizabeth, da. and one of the
heires of Richarde Beanchampe,
Earle of Warwicke.
Sr Henry Nevill, Knight,=
dyed before his father.
:Jane, da. of John Bourchier,
Lo' Berners.
Richarde
Nevill, Lo'
Latimer.
7
Thomas Nevill of Mathom
in the Countye of Worces-
ter, Esqr, seconde sonne ;
had 3 wives.
:Anne, da. of Rob'te Grevill
of Charingworth in the
Countye of Gloucester, Esq1' ;
thirde wife.
John Nevill of Shenstone parke:
in the Countie of Stafford, Esqr,
sonne and heire of Thomas ;
nowe livinge 1583.
: Alice, the da. of Humfrey
Rydell of Colcell in the
Countye of Warwicke.
Foulke Nevill, eldest sonne,
aetat. 10, an0 1583.
Frauncis Nevill,
2 sonne.
Jhon Nevill.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 117
Bori of ©ilrote.
. Noell.=p
I
Thomas.=p
I
I
Phillipp.
Allice Harecourt.
Rob'te.=
Phillip Noell of Hilcote.
Phillip.=pCicely.
Thomas.=j= Alice, da. of Henry Wyv'ston and his heire.
I
I
Will'm.=F
Richard.=p
Jane Sonde, firste wife.=j=Thomas.=pJane Draycott, Rob'te Nowell,
2 wife. thelder.
Isabell, mar. to Thomas
Chitwoode ; livinge an0
6 E. 4.
I
Rob'te Nowell of Hilcot=pMaulde, da. of
in Com. Staford ; livinge .... Breareton.
an0 6 E. 4.
James Nowell=j=. ... da. of ... . John, parson of Richarde, sans
of Hilcot.
Poole of Langley Swinnerton.
in Com. Derby.
yssue.
1. Rob'te Nowell=pMary, da. of . .
of Hilcotte. Aspland of Essex.
2. Arthure, sans yssue.
118 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A |
Phillipe* Nowell of Hilcotte ; livinge Rob'te Nowell, Walter,
1583; mar. Anne, da. of Will'm second sonne. 3 sonne.
Crornpton of Stone in Com. Staforde.
Margaret, mar. to Richarde
Helinge of Willnall in
Com. Stafforde.
Dorothe, mar. to Thomas
Whitgreve of Birchford in
Coin. Stafford.
Cicely, to Thomas
Crosse of Olton in
Com. Staf.
Elizabeth, mar. to
Symon Midlemore of
Haselwell in Com.
"VVigorn.
Brigide, dyed sans
yssue.
Joyce, mar. to
Thomas Pettit of
Hexstall in Com.
Stafforde.
3. Andrewe Nowell of Dalby-
in Com. Leic'r ; mar
Flower, a widdowe ; 1 wife.
^Elizabeth, da. & heire of Hopton de
Glouc, veil Salop, the lady Peryente,
widowe of Sr John Peryente ; 2 wife.
John Noell of Wel-
borne, mar. Anne, da.
and heire of . . . .
Fowler of Welsh-
borne in Com. Leic.
Henry Nowell.
George Nowell.
Will'm Nowell.
Elizabeth, mar. Judithe,
to Anthony 2.
Fonte of Fos-
ton in Com.
Leic.
Will'm,
eldest
sonne.
Edward,
2 sonne.
a daughter,
a daughter.
Andrewe Nowell, mar
da. of S1' James Harington of
Exton, K. This Andrewe is
of Dalby, heire to his father.
Edwarde, a sonne. Luce, a daughter. Theodosia, 2.
Thomas, mar. Dorothe, da. and
heire of Henry Petyt of Badger
in Com. Salop, widowe of John
Kinardesley of Loxley in Com.
Stafford.
Anthony, a preist.
Humfrey, sans
yssue.
Leonarde,
sans yssue,
dyed yonge.
* It appears from a mem. by Mr. Booth that both Philip and Robert died s.p.,
and that the line was carried on by Walter, the third son ; of whom, it may be
added, Charles Perroth Noel, Esq., of Bell Hall, Worcestershire, is the present
representative.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFOEDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 119
Phillipe, James =j=Mary, da. Arthur. Elizabeth, mar. to Elene.
sans Nowell
yssue. of Pelsall
in Com.
Stafford.
of Edwarde
Mitton of
Weston
under
Lyzard.
John Silvester.
Prudence, mar. to
Roger Whitmore.
Anne, mar. to. . . .
Edwarde, eldest sonne, John, 2 Henry, 3 Grace, onely
astat. xj an'or' 1583. sonne. sonne. daughter,
Philip Noell. James Noell.
ex eijartts Wltppi |loel ne $tt*ott in ©om. Staff.
.... Noelus.=F
Robertus Noel. =j= Alicia, filia Hugonis Mounfort.
I I
Thomas=f=Margareta, Robertus Noel,=pAnna, filia et hferes Thomas
Noel.
filia .... 2 filius.
Strange.
Greteham vel Gretheam.
Will'm's Harecourt.=j= Alicia, filia Johanna, nupta Robertus Noel,
et fiEeres Dufton.
Ricardus=j=Orabell, filia
Harecourt Leger.
Thomas Harecourt. :
Nicholaus Henricus^
Noel. Noel.
Robertus
Noel.
Ricardus Noel =f
Ricardus Harecourt,=p
miles.
A
Johannes Ricardus Robertus Noel.
Noel. Noel.
120 THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A
I
Johannes Harecourt.=F
I
Will'm's Harecourt, miles.=p
I
Thomas Harecourt, miles.=j=
I
I
Thomas Harecourt, miles.
24 E. 3. Johannes Noel, films Roberti Noel. Inq'.
(9&eobnr of <©feeobct\
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Ermine, on a chief gules three bezants,
[Okeover.] 2. Per pale indented sable and argent. [Atlowe.]
3. Azure, a bend of lozenges argent. [Grin.]
Crest. — In a ducal coronet or a demi-dragon ermine, armed gules.
Ormus.=F
Radulphus, Alius Ormi.=f
I
Hugo de Acover.=j=
Galfridus de Acover.=pMatildis, uxor ejus.
Radulfus de Acover.=p
Hugo de Acover, miles.=j= Galfridus.=p
I I
I I
Rob'tus de Okeover, miles.=p Ricardus.
Al
OOP
* f f f f
flit
I t I f T
<t>Bntet*,
3am Soim<\ 3&raZdbcErw'rtiverdc I, rnfon
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 121
A]
I I I
Walterus Cubley. Hugo Okover. Johannes Okeover.
Rogerus de Okeover, miles.=p
I
I
Thomas Okeover, oiiles.=j=
I
I
Thomas Okeover.=p
Phillippus Okeover, miles.
Thomas Okeoveiv
Johannes Okeover.
Thomas Okeover.-
I
Phillippus Okeover.
Radulphus Okeover, qui=f=Agnes, filia Joh'is
obi j t 9 Octo. 1494. Bradborne.
Humfridus=pCatherina, soror Edwardi Aston, Will'm's. Thomas.
Okeover. militis, filii Rob'ti Aston, militis.
Phillippus=f=Elizabetha, filia Thomas Nicholaus Okeover de
Okeover. Babington de Dethicke. Stirston in Com. Derb.
Matildis,=
filia
Will'mi
Basset de
Blower ;
ux. 1.
Radulfus=j=Catherina, filia Phillippus=j=Margareta, filia
Okeover
. . Dunham ; Okeover,
ux. 2. 2 films.
. Dethicke
de Newhall.
Isabella. Jana, unica filia, nupta Thomas, s'c'do filio
Thomas Cokayn de Ashborne, militis.
122
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
B|
c
1
Elena, nupta Joh'i
Taylour de Burtou
super Trent.
1
. 1
Elizabetha, ux. Nicolai
Longford de Long-
ford, Ar.
Fayth, 4, sine p'le.
Taylour.
1
Dorothea, 3, nupta
Humfrido "Welles,
filio Ric'di Welles.
1
Matildis
1
Joh'es Welles.
Rollandus Okeover=pSibilla, filia Henrici White de Bristolia. Elizabetha.
de London, 3 filius,
mercator scissor.
(Argent, on a chevron between three wolf s
heads erased sable a leopard's face or.)
Katherina.
Radulphus, Elizabetha, nupta Edwardo
p'rnogeni- Phillips de London, polli-
tus. parius.
Susanna, nupta Thomas
Franknell de London,
aurifabro.
I
Sara,
s.p.
^agtt of JScautiegert
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Sable, on a cross engrailed between four
eagles displayed argent five lions passant of the field. [Paget.]
2 and 3. Argent, two bars gules, on a canton of the last a cinque-
foil or, a crescent for difference. [Preston.]
Crest. — A demi heraldic tiger sable, armed, tufted, and ducally gorged
argent.
.... Pagett. *=j=
Will'm's PagetV
miles ordinis
Garterii, D'n's
et Baro Paget
deBello-deserto.
=Anna, filia et
hseres ....
Preston de
Com. Lancas',
qua3 obijt
Feb. 1586.f
Johannes Pagett,
obijt sine prole.
Robertus Pagett.
Anna, nupta=j=
.... Smithe.
. filia, nupta
. Wright.
Pagitt, of
* In Lord Hatherton's MS. (and also in Harl. MS. 1077) called '
London, mediocris fortunse vir."
t If this is a genuine Visitation pedigree, this date must of course be a subse-
quent addition. It is noted in Lord Hatherton's MS. that "this Anne Ladie Pagett
was buried at West Drayton." There are several (not in all cases accurate) additions
to this pedigree in the Hatherton MS., but the Paget pedigree is so easily accessible
in the various " Peerages " that it is not necessary to note them.
$w%
ffarry Spa/h'Sanhht E?h>)t(\-, r,u- !,■,,,/,,,
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
123
Henricus, p'mo-=pCatherina, fil' Carolus Paget,
genitu', D'n's Hen' Knivet tertius filius.
Paget de Bello- de Bucken-
deserto.
ham, militis,
qua? postea
nupsit Edw'
Carey.
Edwardus,
4 filius, obijt in
pueriti getate.
Ethelreda, p'ma
filia, nupta
Christophero
Alen, milit'.
Elizabetha, Carolus Allen. Thomas Allen. Maria. Dorothea,
quae obijt — — — —
in teneris Will'm's Allen. Joh'es Allen. Anna. Elizabetha.
annis. — — —
Henricus Allen. Chris toferus Fran-
Allen, cisca.
An'a, s'c'da
filia, nupta
Henrico
Lee, milit'.
Jana, 3 filia,
nupta Tho'
Kitson,
milit'.
Hieronimus=pAleonora,=j=Rolandus
Palmer ;
1 maritus.
4 filia.
Clerk,
miles ;
2 maritus.
Maria. Maria Palmer, filia et hares.
Elizabetha
Clerk.
Anna
Clerk.
Dorothea, 5 filia, Grisildis,
nupta Tho' Wil- 6 filia, Paget deBello-
loughby de Wol- nupta Tho' deserto, 2 f ',
laton. Obijt Rivett, Ar. modo superstes
sine prole. =f= 1583.
Thomas, D'n's=pNazaretha, filia Joh'is
Newton, mil', qua obijt
Londinu' 16 Ap' 1583.
P'mo nupta fuit Tho'
Southwell de Com.
Norf.
Anna.
Will'm's Paget, filius et hares.
124
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1683.
$ettt oi fcgatan.
Arms.* — Argent, a chevron gules, charged with a crescent or, between
three bugle-horns stringed sable.
John Petyfc of Badger
in Com. Salop.
Henry, eldeste sonne,:
of Badger, mar. &
hath yssue.
John Petyt:
of Badger.
John Kin ardesley = Dorothe, = Thomas
of Lockesley ; da. and Noell ;
first husbande. heire. 2 hus-
band.
Will'm Petyt,
Henry Petit of Paget's
Bromley in Com. Sta-
fford ; nowe livinge
1583.
Richarde.
Richarde, eldeste sonne,=p John Petit of=F. ... da. of
mar. and had yssue.
Richard. Andrewe. Thomas.
Hexstall in
Com. Staforde,
2 sonne.
Allen, widdowe of
Geffrey Bilston.
Thomas Petit=f=Joyce, da. of John, 2 sonne. Anne.
of Hexstall ;
livinge 1583.
Dorothe.
Rob't Noell
of Hilcotte. Symon Petit, 3. Cassandra. Jane.
John Petit, eldest sonne, Walter, 2 sonne. Dorothe, eldest,
aitat. 10 annor'. — —
Thomas, 3 sonne. Anne, 2 da.
* Although arms seem to have been allowed, both Thomas Petit of Hexstall and
Henry of Paget's Bromley were disclaimed {vide p. 14). According to the Heraldic
Dictionaries the above arms were granted in 1583.
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
125
PantucK at 8Wtonm1mmpt<m.
Arms. — Sable, semee of trefoils, a lion rampant argent.
Crest.— A tiger's head erased or, armed, langued, maned, and tufted
gules. A graunte from Clarencieulx R. Cooke, under his hand.
John Plantney of G-reyengham=j=Elizabeth, da. of ... .
in Com. Linoolne. Rogers of ... . Callays!
Edwarde Plantney=j=Elizabeth, da. of Will'm Alexander, sans
of Greyengham. Lynne of Norfolke. yssue.
Henry Plantney of Wolver-=pJoane, da. of Richard Thomas Plantney,
hampton in the Countie of
Stafforde ; livinge 1583.
Creswell of Barnes-
hurst in Com. Staf-
forde.
2 sonne.
Samuell Plantney, eldest sonne, Danyell, 2
astat. 19 annor' 1583. sonne.
Elizabeth, Margaret,
eldeste. 2 daughter.
Henry Planteney.
&obm$cin of Sragtou JSasftctt
Arms. — Per pale or and azure, a cross patonce counter changed, a chief
quarterly of the first and second, in the first and fourth quarters a
lion passant of the last, in the second and third three bezants in
fesse.
Crest. — The sun in splendour or, perched thereon a robin proper.
.... uxor p'ma.=pGeorgius Robinson de=f=Johanna, filia Ilderton.
Drayton Basset in
Com. Staff.
(Argent, three water-
bougets sable.)
Nicholaus, Will'm's Robinson=j=Gracea, filia Humfridi Fitzherb't
p'mogenitus ; de Drayton Bassett.
obiit s.p.
de Uphall in Com. Hertf., Ar.
(Argent, a chief vaire or and gules,
over all a bendlet sable.)
Thomas Robinson de Johannes, Dorothea, nupta Walteri Harecourt
.... modo sup'stes 2 Alius. de Staunto' Harecourt in Com.
an'o 1583. Oxon', Ar.
126
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
fttitJBcrti of fttitJgrrU.
Arms (" Ex sigillo "). — Argent, fretty {formed by perpendicular and
horizontal lines) sable, on a canton gules a rose or, barbed vert.
In Lord Hatherton's MS. is written over the shield : " Robert
of Ruddiard al's Tetesworth."
Rauf Rudierd of=p. . . . daughter of Roger Savage,
a yonger of the house of Savage
in Chesshire.
Rudierd ; lyvinge
anno 15 H. 7.
Thomas Rudierd, eldest
sonne, sans yssue.
James Rudierd,=F.
daughter of Neelson
dyed before his
brother.
of Yorkshire.
Muryell, mar.
to John
Smart of
London.
I
.... a daughter,
mar. to ....
Wardesworth.
Raufe=f=Alice, da.
Rudierd
of
Rudierd.
of Hugh
Brereton
of
2. John
Rudyerd.
3. John, sans
yssue.
Rauf Rudyard,= Margery, d.
2 sonne ; lyv- of John
inge 1583. Mylner de
Com. Nott.
Hugh, sans
issue.
Richard,
sans yssue.
James Rudyerd, mar.
Mary, daughter of
Laurence Kedwelly.
Laurence, eldest
sonne.
John, 2.
Benjamin.
James.
Thomas.
Elizabeth.
Ambrosia.
Thomas Rudyard=
of Rudyard.
Elizabeth, d. of John Osbaldeston of Chadlinton
in Com. Oxon.
Mary, d. of Francys=
Bydulf of Bydulf,
Esquier, sans yssue.
= Thomas Rudyerd of = Jane, 2 wyf, d. of
Rudyerd in the County Will'm Norreys of Fy-
of Staff., Esquier ; lyv- feld in Com. Berks,
ing 1583. Nunc gravida mense
Aug. 1583.
€[x ^iT&t
&tf%tf&
j^iftillum tyTjjSfffyfri
ffarry Soon* Heraldic Enoraver&cZondon
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 127
Laurence, John Randoll, Richard, Edmond Rudyerd, mar.
sans Rudyerd. sans sans Temperance, d. of John
yssue. yssue. yssue. Osbaldeston de Com.
Oxon.
Will'm Rudyerd, Charles Anne, mar. first to Will'm Alice, mar.
sans yssue. Rudyerd. Parrott, & after to John to Will'm
Parshouse.* Clanden.
Thomas Rudyerd.
R. Rudyerde.
JUigrtcg of <#>{mtdtotte.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Argent, a chevron behveen three roses gules.
[Rugeley.] 2 and 3. Argent, a horse's head erased sable.
[Hawkesyard.]
Robert Ruggeley, descended of the house of Ruggeley=p
of Haucksyard in the Countye of Stafforde.
Will'm Ruggeley of Shenston=j= Alice, da. of Will'm Claxson of Whit-
in the Com. of Staff.
inffton in the Countie of Staff.
Rowlande Thirkell, the firste=j=Rose, da. of John
that came into Staffordsh.
Minours.
John Thirkell of Smalwood=j=. ... da. of Sr John Poole of Harington
in Com. Staff. I in Com. Derby.
John Thirkell of Smallwood.=j=Elizabeth, da. of ... . Swinnerton of
Swinnerton.
A B
* John Persehouse and Anne Perrott were married at Walsall in 1572.
128
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
B|
James Thirkell=j=Jane, daughter
of Smalwoode.
of Sr James
Bagotte.
I
Jane, wife to Thomas Adderley
of Blackha^h.
Raulf Aderley of Cotton in
Comitat. Staff., Ar.
Will'm Ruggeley, Rowland Ruggeley of Shen-=i=Elene, da. and sole
eldest sonne, dyed ston and of Smalwood in the heire of James
sans yssue. Countye of Staff. Thirkell of Smal-
wood.
George, James, 4 sonne, Jane, eldest da.
3 sonne. mar. Margerye, mar. to Tho.
da. of ... . Rowley of
Clerke. Heikley.
Rebecca, 2 da., mar.
to Raulf Rugeley of
Dunton.
Will'm Ruggeley of Shen-=j=Elizabeth, da. to Thomas, 2 sonne, mar,
ston in Com. Staff. ; nowe
livinge 1583.
John Knottes- Jane, da. of . . . . Pegge
f ord of Malverne, of Tatenhall in Com.
Esqr. Staff.
Richard Ruggeley, Thirkell, Elene,
eldeste sonne, getat. 3 sonne. eldest.
19 anV 1583. —
— Henry, 4
Rouland, 2 sonne. sonne.
Jane, 2. Margaret, 4.
Anne, 3. Penelope, 5.
Frauncis, 6.
Wyll'm Rugeley.
f$fatxm$jfc$,
Sorry Soane SeraZdicEnpraver'^cZondon
THE VISITATION OF STAFFOEDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
129
gfovimtibm of liorimrg, aqtialate,
ana Sofwcton,
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Gules, a lion rampant or within a border
vaire. [Skrimshire.] 2 and 3. Azure, a chevron between three
flies anient. [Mtjschamp.]
Crest. — A demi-man in armour, front-faced, couped at the waist proper,
holding in his right hand a sword reclining on his shoulder, blade
proper, pomel and hilt or ; on his sinister arm an oval buckler
gules.
.... Skrimshire.=F
.... Skrimsher,=p
eldest sonne.
Will'm Skrimshere^
of Muscharape in
Com. Nott., and of
North Dighton in
Com. Ebor.
Maulde, da. and
sole heire, mar. to
.... Mai-shall.
. daughter and heire of=pThomas Skrirnshere=
.... Swiushedof Swinshed
in Com. Stafford.
of Northbury in Com.
Staforde, 2 sonne.
John^=Dorothe,
Skrim- I da. of Sr
shere
of
North-
burye,
eldest
John
Talbot,
Knight.
Thomas Skrim-=F. . . .
shere, 2 sonne, daughter
of Johnson in of ... .
Com. Staf. Talbotte.*
Thomas Skrim-=p. . . .| da.
shere of John-
son ; livinge
1583.
of
Wirley of
Hamstede.
Thomas Skrim--
shere of Aqui-
lotte in Com.
Staff., eldest
sonne ; livinge
1583.
: Alice, da.
of ... .
Starkey
of Barley
in Com.
Cestr.
James Skrimshere
of Northbury, 2
sonne, mar. Eliza-
beth, da. of Rob't
Collyar of Darles-
ton in Com. Staf-
forde.
Richarde Skrim-
shere of North-
bury, 3 sonne,
mar. Margaret,
da. of John Poole
ofWirrallinCom.
Cestr.
Thomas, eldest sonne,
getat. 7 annor' 1583.
James, Dorothe, eldest. Elizabethe,
2 sonne. — 3 daughter.
Lucye, 2.
Thomas Skrimsher.
M. Fylston, for Ja. Skrymsher.
* " A base dau. to Sir Gilbert." (Hatberton MS.) Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton,
co. Worcester, had several natural children by his " concubine," Elizabeth Wynter,
widow : among others, "Walter (who died 1588, leaving issue) ; Humphrey ; Eleanor,
wife of Geoffrey Dudley, Esq., of Russell's Hall ; and Margaret, unmarried in 1542.
(See Vis. Wore, 1569, etc.)
t Elizabeth, da. of Will. Wyrley. (Hatberton MS.)
130
THE VISITATION OF STAFFOEDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
&mttfj of £rtoragttemttier;?Lgme.
[Arms. — Or, an eagle's leg erased a la cuisse gules, on a chief indented
azure a mullet argent between two plates.
Crest. — A parrot vert, beaked and legged gules, charged on the breast
with a mullet or. (Hatherton MS.)]
The Amies and Creaste of Raufe Smithe of Newcastle under Lyne
in the Countye of Stafforde, lyneally descended by paternell race from
Richard Torbocke of Torbocke, the thirde sonne of Sr Will'm Torbocke
of Torbocke in the Countye of Lancaster, Knighte, who was the firste
that by an accydente was surnarned Srnithe.
Richarde Torbocke,* yonger sonne of Sr Will'm Torbocke^
of Lancasheire, Knighte, called Smithe by an accydente
and dwelte at Newcastle.
John Smithe of Newcastle under Lyne in Com. Stafforde.-
Anne, mar. to Richard
Colecloghe of Chelley in
Com. Stafford.
Eleanor, mar. to Rycharde Bloydej of
Lloynmayne in Com. Salop.
Richarde Smithe, eldest
sonne, mar. Margaret, da.
of John Dodde of Clar-
leyj in Com. Salop, and
dyed sans yssue.
John Smithe of New-^Margarette, da.
castle under Lyne, Ralf Pickman
seconde sonne, and Midlewiche in
heire to his brother Comitate Cestr.
Richarde.
John, eldest sonne ;
dyed sans yssue.
Edwarde, seconde
sonne ; dyed sans
yssue.
of
of
Raulph Smithe of Newcastle,
gen. ; livinge 1583.
Ralph Smyth.
* See Flower's Visitation of Lancashire in 15fi7, published by the Chetham
Society, p. 91. But this descent from Tarbock seems to have been suggested by
William Smith, Rouge Dragon. A John Smith of Newcastle-under-Lyme had a
grant of the following arms in 1561 : Barry of six ermine and gules, over all a
lion rampant sable, crowned or. Crest : A tiger passant argent, pierced through t ho
chest with a tilting-spear proper. It is noteworthy that, though the " Amies and
Creaste " of Ralph Smith are referred to (as above) in the Stukeley MS., no trick or
blazon of them is given.
t Lloyd. % Cloverley.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 131
JtomrtfortJ of AomntortL
Arms. — Vert, a stag trippant proper, attired or, within a border
engrailed argent.
John Somerford of Somerford in Com. Staff. =f
Will'm Somerford of=^="Wynifride, sister and heire to Will'm
Somerford.
Glover of Xewport in Com. Salop.
Humfrey=p Jane, daughter Anne, mar. to Edward Catherine, mar,
Somerford
of Somer-
ford.
of Roger Roxcetor of Barnes- to Richard
Fowke of hurst, neere Wolver- Granger.
Brewood. hampton.
Robert, Margaret, d.=pGeffrey Somerford=j=Eleanor, Margaret,
sans of Roger of Somerford in daughter mar. to John
yssue. Haughton the County of of Robert Haughton of
— of Beck- Staff. ; now lyv- Pygott of Beckbery in
Thomas, bery in ing 1583. Chetwyn Com. Salop,
sans Com. Salop. j in Com.
yssue. I Salop;
second wyf.
Ursula, Mary, 2. Elizabeth, 4. Francys, eldest sonne, Richard,
eldest. — setatis 3 annor' 1583. 2 sonne.
Susanne, 3.
Geffre Som'ford.
k 2
132
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Or, a chevron gules. [Stafford.] 2 and 3.
Or, two ravens in pah sable. [Corbett of Caus.]
Crest. — In a ducal coronet per pale gules and sable, a demi-swan, wings
expanded proper, beaked gules.
Edwardus de Stafford, Dux:
Buckinghamige.t
:Aleonora, filia Henrici de
Percy, Co' Northumbrise.
Henricus de Stafford,
Comes, natus Staffordise,
qui nupsit Vrsulam,|
filiam Comtissae Sar'.
Elizabetha,
uxor Thoma3
Howard,
Ducis Nor-
folciae.
Katherina,
uxor Radulphi,
Comitis West-
inerlandias.
Maria, nupta
Geo. de
Nevill, D'n'o
de Abur-
gaveny.
Edwardus de Stafford,-
DVs et Baro de Staf-
ford.
:Mariam, filiam
Edwardi Stanley,
Comitis Darbias.
Dorothea, nupta Maria,
Gulielmo Staf- innupta.
ford de Grafton,
miles.
Edwardus de Stafford, astatis xj annor' Vrsula. Dorothea,
anno 1583.
E. Stafford.
* Raufe the sonne of Edmund, the son' of Nycholas, the sonne of Roberto,
Baron of Stafford, that maried Alice, the eldestc da. of Sr Tho. Corbett of Caus ;
wch Eaufe was the first Earle Stafford, and had in partition of the Barony of Caus
the Castell and demaynes, the manner of Nether Gother, the moyety of the manner
of Woorthin and the parke, part of the chase of the forest of Cans, with dyvers
other landes, and dyvers knights' fees by partition, the 21st of Kinge Ed. 3.
(Hatherton MS.)
f Attainted the 10th Henry 8. (lb.)
j Ursula, da. to the Countes of Salisbury, Margaret, and of her husband Sr
Richard Poole, Kl of the Garter. {lb.)
THE VISITATION OF STAFFOEDSHIEE, A.D. 1583.
133
&tamtoi*& of $urg ?8alL
Arms. — Concessa "Will'mo Stamforde de Holloway* in Com. Middlesex,
per Christoph' Barker, Garter, dat. 26 Maij 1542, an0 H. 8, 34.
— Argent, three bars azure, a canton or, thereon a /esse, and in
chief three mascles sable.
Crest. — A gauntlet or, holding a broken sword, hilt and pomel sable,
blade argent.
Rob'te Stamforde of Rowley:
in Com. Stafforde.
=Margery, da. and heire of . .
Fisher of Rowley juxta Staf.
1
John, a
1
"Will'ni=pMargaret, da. and heire
1
Thomas =
=. . . . da.
preiste ;
Stamforde
of ... . Gydney of Lon-
Stamford
of
sans
of Lon-
don. Shelyethburyedat
of Row-
Henshawe,
yssue.
don,
Islington ; quse obi j 1 10
ley; 3
Mayor of
m'ohant ;
Octobris 1541, sepulta
sonne.
Gloucester,
2 sonne.
in australi parte ejus-
dem eccl'ge.
and his
heire.
John, Sr Will'm Stamforde of Hadley-
eldest in Com. Midlesex, Knight,
sonne ; Justice of the Com'on Bench ;
sans natus 22 Augusti an'o 1509 ;
yssue. qui obijt 28 Augusti an0 6
reginae Maria? ; sepultus apud
Hadly. Made Knight an'o 1
et 2 Phil, et Marias.
=Alice, eldest da. of John
Palmer of Kentish towne ;
wch John lyeth buried in
Sl Pankridge Church,
neere Grey's Inne ; obijt
ipsa apud Hadley 20 Sep-
tembris an'o 15 Regime
Elizabethan, et sepulta
jacet apud Hadley.
Rob'te Stamforde of Pury-hall in=f=Anne, da. of John Leveson of
Com. Staf., Esqr
1583; natus fuit
an'o 1539.
nowe livinge
31 Januarij
"Wolverhampton in Com. Staf-
ford, Esqr ; qui sepultus jacet
apud "Wolv'hampton.
Edwarde Rob'te, 2 Frauncis, Mary, Margaret, 5 da.
Stamford, sonne. eldest da. 3 da. —
eldest — — — Agatha, sixth
sonne, getat. Charles, 3 Catherin, Anne. da.
19an'or' sonne. 2 da.
1583.
* Sic, sed query Hadley 1
134
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
A
Thomas
Will'm, 3 sonne
1
Henry
Raulf
1
John
Stamford,
mar. Eleanor, da
Stamforde Stamford,
Stamford,
2 soime.
of Xp'er Pal-
and M
ar- Mr of
G sonne.
mer of Shenley.
garet were Arte, 5
twines,
sonne.
4 sonne.
Margaret,
1
Frauncis, 2 da
., mar.
1
Dorothe, mar.
1
^ inifride,
eldest da.:
to Thomas Repington
to Vincent
4 da. ;
died s.p.
of Armington
juxta
Pidcoke.
sans yssne.
Tamworth in
Com.
3 da.
Warwicke.
1
1
John
1 1
Humfrey,
1
Rob'te
1
Anne, eldest
1
Frauncis, 2
Repington,
2 sonne.
Pidcocke,
daughter.
daughter.
eldest
—
eldest
sonne.
Edward,
3 sonne.
sonne.
Catherin, 5 da.,
mar. to John
Bambury of
London.
Anne, 6 da.
sans yssue.
Margaret, a tweene, borne wth her
brother Henry; mar. to Richard
Astley, yonger brother to the
Master of the Jewell Howse.
Edwarde, a
sonne.
I I
Twoe da.,
tweenes.
Drue Astley,
eldest sonne.
Henry Astley,
2 sonne.
I
Mary
Astley.
Thomas,
3 sonne ;
sans
yssue.
Anne, mar. to
.... Withers of
London, mar-
chante ; sans
yssue.
Anne.
Alice. Elizabeth, mar. to
Edmonde Atcombe,
citizen and goulde-
smith of London.
Allice.
Elizabeth.
Joane, mar.
to Edwarde
Cooke of
London,
goldsmith.
Har'm filial1' du«3 nuptas fuerunt duobus fratribns
de Dickens de Bobinton in Com. Staff, quaru' una
nupta Humf. Dickens p' creavit.
Will'm's Dickens de Bobington.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
135
Richard Cooke, mar sister of . . .
Greve of Salisbury Parke in Com. Hertf'rd.
One sonne. 2 da.
Anne Cooke, mar. to
Will'm Goody er, sonne
and heire of Henry
Goodyere, Alderman of
London. =7=
Henry Goodyere of Had- Will'm
ley, mar da. and Goodyere.
heire of ... . Rumbalde de
Com. Hertforde.
Anne, mar. to Thomas Ciceley.
Walkden, sonne and
heire to ... . Walkden
of London.
A sonne.
Daughters.
A daughter.
Robert Staunford.
&tamfcv& of &otolei> anfi ^aftmgtoiu
Arms. — Argent, three bars azure, on a canton gules a gauntlet or, holding
a broken sword, blade argent, hilt and pomel sable.
Crest. — A stag's head couped argent, guttee de sang, gorged ivith a
gemelle gides.
Walter Acton of Acton-hall of Amersley in Com. Wigorn'.=p
Isabel],* daughter
and coheire.
:Sr Thomas Blounte
of Kinlet in Com.
Salop.
Joyce, mar. to Richardef
Barnaby of Bokington in
Com. Herford.
Walter Blounte of Astley in Com. Wigorn'
3 sonne of Sr Thomas.
* This is a mistake. Isabel, daughter and coheiress of "Walter Acton of
Ombersley, was the wife not the mother of "Walter Blount of Astley. She was the
widow of Thomas Broughton of Longdon (see that pedigree), and lies buried (ob.
8 Jan. 1562) with her second husband in Astley Church. (See M.I. in Nash's
" "Worcestershire," i., 43.)
f Should be Thomas Barneby of Brockhampton.
136
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
^Thomas Stamforde of Rowley=p
I in Com. Stafforde, thirde sonne
\ of Eob'te Stamford of Rowley;
s buryed in the Castle Churohe
\ juxta Stafforde.
da. and heire of . . .
Henshawe, Mayor of
Gloucester.
(Gules, on a chevron between
three lozenges argent as
many bells sable.*)
Roger Stamforde of Honnesworth in Com.
Stafforde; nowe livinge 1583. Filiusnothus.
:Margery, da. of Walter
Blounte of Astley.
Rob'te Stamforde, eldeste sonne,
ffitatis 20 an'or' an0 1583.
Roger, 2 Frauncis, mar. to James
sonne. Haynes de Com. Hert-
forde.
John Moore of Donkley-
Parke in Com. Wio'orn.
-Eleanor, da. and one of the heires of Symon
Milburne de Com. Gloucest.
(Gules, a chevron between three escallops argent.)
_L
1
Joyce, mar.
1
A daughter,
1
f A da.,$
1
Will'm Stamforde=
pMargaret,
to Anthony
Babington
mar. to . . .
Blounte of
. mar. to
.... Whit-
of Rowley, sonne
and heire ; buryed
da. and
heire.
of Tin more
Sillington i
ti greve of
in Hounesworthe
in Com.
Com.Wigor
u. Burton
Churche.
Staff.
=
"
juxta
Staford.
1
=r
Mathewe Bab-
ington, mar.
.... daughter
of . . . .Stanley.
A daughter.
Walter Blounte,
mar. Catherin,
sister to John
Grey of En-
vilde.
.... 2 sonne.
Humfreye Whitgreve
of Burton, eldeste
sonne, mar. da. of
George Corbet.
A sonne.
Thomas, 2
sonne,
mar. da. of
.... Noell.
George,
3 sonne.
* In Lord Hatherton's MS. is a trick of " Hcnshaw's crest," viz., A bird's
(? hernshaw's) head erased per pale wavy azure and gules, beaked or.
f Catherine. (Hatherton MS.) She was tlie first wife of Thomas Blount of
Sodington, Co. Worcester (who died 10 Dec. 5 Elizabeth), and had issue by him
two sons, Walter and Henry. (M.I. atMamble, Worcestershire, and Nash's Pedigree
of Blount, ii., p. 162.)
X Margery, mar. to Robert Whitgreve. (Hatherton MS.)
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
137
Edwarde:
Stamforde
of Row-
ley.
:Jane, da. and heire of ... . Abington,
eldest brother to Abington, Coferer
to Q. Elizab. This' Edw. lyeth
buried in the Castell Churche neere
Stafforde.
I
Jane, mar. to Ursula.
Edwarde
Knippe.
Thomas Stamforde of
Radclife in Com.
Leieest., mar. da. of
Edw. Sprotte of Ash-
enbroke in Com.
Staforde.
Will'm Stamforde— Elizabeth, da. Elizabeth.
of Pakington in of Thomas
Com. Stafforde ; Cumberford of
nowe livinge Cumberforde.
1583.
<#>trctfjag of <#>trrtfja^
Arms. — Argent, a Igmmer-hound with his nose to the ground gules.
A second shield of the same coat, impaling (for Cooke) : Quarter Ig
— 1 and 4. Gules, three crescents or, that in the dexter chief con-
cealed bg a canton of the same. 2 and 3. Argent, a fesse gules,
in chief three mullets of the last.
Phillippe Strethay.=pJulyan, da. of ... . Woolseye.
John Strethay .=j= Anne, da. of ... . Curson.
Edmonde Strethay, Thomas Strethay of Strethay=pElizabeth, da. of
Clerke. in Com. Staff. .... Hopkines.
Anne, firste wife, da. of=pJohn Strethay.^pAnne, seconde wife, da. of
Thomas Kinnersley of
Locksley.
. Clapton.
Rowlande. Elizabethe.
138 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Aj
I MM
Pliillippe Strethay of=pAnne, da. of Will'm John, 2 sonne. Marye.
Leichfeild and of
Strethaye.
Cooke of Trusseley
in Com. Derb. George, 3 sonne. Anne.
I I I
Richarde Strethay,* tetatis John, 2 sonne. Will'm, 3 sonne.
15 annor' 1583.
Philip Strethay.
Cfiicitneg of Saltnrlrg.
Arms. — Argent, a chevron sable fretty or, in chief a scythe-Made azure,
edge to the chief, point to the dexter.
Richarde Thicknes of Barterley, sonne of Thomas.^p
Henry Thicknes of Barterley.
James Thicknes of Barterley.
Lawrence Thicknes of Barterley.=p. ... da. of ... . Ridgleye.
Rauph Thicknes=j=Elizab., da. of Roberte Thicknes, seconde:
of Barterley.
. Swettenham sonne, of Bcanmorrys.
de Com. Cestr.
Ralf Thicknes=pTsabell, da. of Charles Rowland Thicknes of=
of Barterley Mainwairinge of Crox- Beaumorris in Angle-
in Com. Staff, ton in Com. Cestr. sey. -~
Will'm Thicknes, Capfcayne, Rowland Thicknes
nothus. of Bewmorris.
* " Sold Strethay to Alderman Piot." (Note in Stukeley MS.)
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
139
Rob't Thickness
of Whittington
in Com. Staff.,
second sonne.
=Anne, da. of
.... Osbarton
[Osbaldeston]
of Chadlington
in Com. Oxon.
Thomas Thicknes, -
3 sonne, Citizen
and Clothvrorker
of London ; bath
yssue.
:Elizabeth,
da. of ... .
Michell de
Com. Devon.
Thomas, eldeste Elizabeth, mar.
sonne. to ... .
Susan. [John, 2 son.
(HathertonMS.)]
Rauf=j
=Anne, da. of
Catherin,
Elene,
Anne, mar. to Thomas
Thicknes
Rob't Bar-
mar. to
mar. to
Story of Litlehales in
of Bat-
boure of
Anthony
....
Com. Salop.
terley.
Stafforde
Chetwin.
Smithe
—
Greene.
of . . . .
Elizabeth, mar. to John
Mollins, Archdeacon of
London.
1
Ranf Tl
licknes of
1
George, 2
1
Ursula,
mar. to John Garnett of
Barteiie
y ; nowe
sonne.
Audley
in Com. Staff.
livinge
1583.
Rauffe Thicknes.
Cmttjmm trf forester.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Argent, three griffin's heads erased sable, beaked
gules. [Trentham.] 2. Argent, on a chief or a raven (or
Cornish chough) sable, beaked and legged gules. [Hoord.] 3.
Gules, a bend lozengg within a border engrailed or. [Marschall.]
4. Argent, three pallets and as many barrulets all couped and
interlaced azure. [Hurst.]
Crest. — A raven's head erased sable.
Will'ni Treiitham=
de Villa Salopia?,
Armiger.
A
:. . . . filia
Horton de
Woodcott.
.... Hoarde de Yilla=p
Salopian
140 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Johannes Tren tham dcVilla-
Salopia3, Anniger, superstes
23 Ed. 4.
=. . . . soror et
haeresWill'mi
Hoard de
Villa Salopian
Joh'es
Hoarde,
At.
Will'mus Hoard
de Villa Salopias,
qui obijt sine
p'le.
WilFm's Hoord, qui obijt sine p'le.
Thomas Trentham de Villa=j=Catherina, filia et haeres
Joh'is Marschall de Hurst
in Com. Salop.
Salopian, senior, Armiger,
superstes 17 H. 7.
Thomas Trentham de Villa Salopia3,=pElizabetha, filia Ricardi Corbett
junior, Armiger.
de Moreton, militis.
.... filia,
nupta ....
Husee de
Adbright-
husee in
Com. Salop.
filia,
nupta p'mo
Hak-
luit de
Com. Herf. ;
deinde re-
nupta ....
Fox.
.... filia,
nupta ....
Leighton
de Cotes in
Com. Salop.
.... filia,
nuptaHugoni
Rogers de
Hamhouse in
Com. Staff.,
quae obijt
sine prole.
.... filia,
nupta . . . .
Middleton,
sine prole.
Rob'tus Trentham,
unus hostiarium
Res\ H. 8 et Ed. G.
Ric'dus Trentham de Villa Salopia3,=pMaria, filia
Ar., pocillator reg. Ed. 6, dum
Walliaa principatum tenuit ; primus
qui partim emptione et partim ex
largitione magni regis H. 8, habuit
ccenob'm de Rocester.
Elizabetha, nupta
Thomas Hacluyt de Ea-
ton Court in Com. Salop.
Joanna, nupta (Jodfrido
Fouljambe de Norton-
lees in Com. Derb.
Jocosa, nupta
Edwardo
Minours de
Utoxetur.
Catheriua,
nupta Tho.
Lane de
Hide et de
Bentley
in Com.
Staff.
Davidis
Irland de
. ... in
Com.
Salopian.
Margareta,
nupta
Sampsoni
Meverell de
Throwley in
Com. Staff.
t5rimi|tam,
Harry Same. H&mldicEn^ra>/erIaZondon
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
141
Thomas Trentham de Rocestre in Com. Staff., Ar.,=f=Jana, filia Will'mi
modo snperstes an0 1583.
Sneyde, militis.
Franciscus Trentham, Thomas, Elizabetha, pedise- Dorothea, 2
primogenitus et 2 filius. qua honoraria filia.J
hteres, aetatis 19* SermiE Reginas —
annor' an0 1583. Elizabethae.t Catherina, 3
filia.
Tho. Trentham.
CgiTdl of itoufbton.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1
engrailed gules
[BURGATE.]
embowecl vert.
[Bruyn.] 5
Argent, two chevrons azure within a border
[Tyrrell.] 2. Paly of six argent and sable.
3. Gules, on a chevron argent three dolphins
[Flambert.] -4. Azure, a cross moline or.
Lozengy ermine and gules. [Rockley.] The
whole debruiscd with a bendlet sinister, and differenced by a
crescent upon a mullet.
Crest. — A boar's head coaped and erect argent, differenced and debruiscd
as the arms, issuant from the mouth a peacoclcs tail proper.
Humfrey Tyrrell of=
Thorneton.§
:Joyce, da. of
Inffleton.il
George Tyrrell of Thorneton in Com.-
Bucks.f
:Mary, da. of Sr Edwarde
Montague.
* Married " d. of Sheldon of Beely in Worstsh." (Lord Hatherton's MS.)
She was Katherine, seventh daughter of Ralph Sheldon of Beoley.
f " Modo Comitissa Oxon." (lb.) She was the second wife of Edward de Vere,
seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and mother of Henry his successor.
X " Uxor Johan'is Stanhope." (lb.)
§ Son, according to Lord Hatherton's MS., of " William Tyrrell of Wokynden,
Essex," by his wife " Elizabeth, da. of Tho. Bodeley, Esqr."
|| Robert Ingleton, Esq. (lb.)
IT Had a second wife, Mary, da. of ... . Cooke of Cheshire. (lb.)
142 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Mary, da. of . . . .=j=Edwarde TyrreU,=pMargaret, da. of ... . Aston
Lea ;* first wife.
eldest sonne, of
Walgrange.
of Aston in Com. Cestr.,
widowe of Tymothe Eggerton.
Edward Tyrrell, Frauncis. Cassandra.
setat. 8, an0 — —
1583. Charles. Mary.
Penelope Tyrrell, a
daughter.
Thomas Tyrrell of Rush ton =
in Com. Staford, gent. ; liv-
inge 1583. Films spurins
ut dictns.
Elizabeth, da. of
Lawrence Swet-
tenham of Swet-
tenham in Com.
Cestr.
Margery, mar. to Tho-
mas Yorke of Brackley
in Com. Northamp.
Thomas Tyrrell.
aUntom ot Cfjattrrlcj). SHntom of Cloticjl).
Arms. — Azure, a crescent or between three fleurs-de-lis argent, within a
border engrailed of the seco?id.'\
Will'm Unwin of Chatterley=j=Elizabeth, da. of Stephen
in Com. Staff. Chaterley.
Will'm Unwin of Chaterley.
B
* " Of Wallsgrave in Suffolk." (Hatherton MS.)
t These Arms are stated in the Heraldic Dictionaries to have heen "confirmed "
to William Unwyn of Chatterley on the 18th of November, 24 Eliz. (1581). But
vide ante, p. 10, where, from the memorandum attached to the name of "William
Unwin, it would seem that his right to Arms was doubtful. It may be mentioned
as a curious circumstance that the page in the Harl. MS. 1570 which contained
this Unwin pedigree has been torn out, and on the opposite page is the following
note by Wanley : " Nov. 4, 1711. Mr. Bale, perusing this book, told me that in
certain books of the College of Arms one part of this pedigree of Unwyn is also
torn out, being ye same with that what was written upon p. 69. He says further
that he had observed folio G9 of this book to be missing some years since, while it
was in ye possession of Mr Comyns."
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 143
A_| B
John Unwin of Chaterley.=p Elene, da. of ... .
Raulf Unwin of=pElizabeth, da. of Richard Spencer of Congleton in
Chaterley.
Corn. Cestr.
Edwarde Unwin of^pUrsula, da. of John Billett of Great Moreton,
Chatterley.
Esq1', in Com. Cestr,
"Will'ni Unwin or=pMary, da. of Eaulf Unwin, Anne, mar. to
Chatterley in the
Conntye of Staf-
forde ; nowe liv-
ings 1583.
Rob'te Vernon 2 sonne, mar. Thomas Badley.
of Haselton in Anne, da. of —
Com. Cestr., .... Barnes Mary, mar. to
Ar. of Cheshire. Will'm Bourne.
Elene, only da., setat. John. Mary. Margerye.
12, an'o 1583.
WlLLYAM UNWYN.
John Unwin of Cloughe, younger sonne.=
"Will'm Unwin of Cloughe.=T=. . . . da. of ... . Jackson.
Thomas Unwin of=f=. . . . da. of ... . Caddy, sister to the Abbot
Clous-he.
of Croxton.
[Stephen Unwin of Cloughe.=pCustonie, da. of ... . Grledenhurst.
Thomas Unwyn of=f Margaret, da. of Hughe Brereton, brother to Sr
Cloughe.
Andrewe and S1' John.
Thomas Unwin of Clough in the Countie=pAnne, da. of John Offeley
of Staf. ; living 158:'.. I of Madeley, gen.
John Unwin, of the age of 2 yeares, anno 1583.
Thomas Unwyn.
144 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Verbmt.
Arms. — Or, frotty yules.
Xormannus de Verdon.=FLeceltna.
Bertramus de Verdun, fundator Abbathire Vallis=fJioheis de
Sanctse Maria? de Crokedene.
Verdun.
I III
Thomas de=j= Bertramus, filius Rob'tus de Nicholaus, sup'stes
Verdun. Bertrami. Verdun. 1224.
Theobaldus de Verdun, Con- Johannes de Verdun, vocat D'nu'
stabularius Hiberniae, carta NichV de Verdu1 avum suuni, carta
dat' an'o 17 Ed. 2. sine dat'.
Witit of &>tatmtJotL
A circular seal, thereon a buck's head cabossed, between the attires a cross.
" SlGILLUM JOH'IS VYSE."
John Vise of . . . .=f=
Roger Vise of . . . .=
"Will'm Vise of Stawne in Com. Staff. =f
"Will'm Vise of Stawne.=F. . . . daughter of ... . Howforde.
John Vise of Stawne.=F. ... da. of ... . Bousrhe of Whitmore.
John Vise of Stawne.=pMargery, da. of ... . Broughton of Broughton.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 145
Thomas, Humfrey=plsabell, da. of Jenken Edwarde Vise, mar.
2 sonne. Vise of
Stawne.
Fitton, a seconde sonne and hath yssue
of Gowseworthe. John.
Ursula, mar. Anne, mar. to Ciceley, mar. to Joane, 4 da.
to Thomas Thomas Milles John Gervis of —
Forster of of Chedley in Chatkill. Elene, 5 daughter.
Shropshire. Com. Staff.
Will'm Vise of Stawne al's=j=Catherin, da. of John John, 2 sonne.
Stawndon in Com. Staf-
forde; nowe livinge 15S3.
Barker of Couls-
hurste in the Edmonde, 3 sonne.
Countie of Salop. —
James, 4 sonne.
Andrewe, eldest Humfrey, Elizabeth, mar. to Mary, 3. Lettyce, 4.
sonne, a3tat. 16 2 sonne. Will'm Clayton of —
anuor' 1583. Oneleighe in Com. Isabell, 5.
Salop.
WlLLYAM VYSE.
Wltl\c& of f&orrrrosfc.
Arms. — Quarterly — 1. Sable, a buck's head cabossed or. [Welles.]
2. Argent, a f esse, and in chief three lozenges sable, on the f esse
a mullet of the field for difference. [Aston.] 3. Argent, a chief
vaire or and gules, over all a bendlet sable. [Fitzherbekt.]
4. Argent, two bars sable, a canton ermine. [Marshall.]
Thomas Welles de=j=Cecilia, filia Joh'is Aston
Parva Haywoode. de Longdon.
Joh'es Welles.=f= Alicia, filia et haeres Ricardi Aston de Horecrosse.
Thomas Welles.=p Johanna, filia Will'mi Bonington.
L
146
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Johannes Welles.=p Anna, una filiar' et cohasredu' Joh'is Fitzherbert de
Norbery, Ar'.
Humfridus
Wells, s.p.
Rob'tus Welles de
Horecrosse in Com'
Staff., Ar', modo
sup'stes in anno
1583.
Ricardus=f=Mariam, Katherina,
Welles, 3
filius.
filiarn Joh'is nupta
Cockes de Joh'i S
Sar' et
hsered'
Andrewe
de Gotham.
Margareta, nupta
Barthol' Croche
de Com' Derbias.
Elizabetha,
2 filia.
Dorothea, nupta
Ric'do Duffeld
de Com' Oxon.
Maria, nupta
Joh'i Chetwiu
de Com' Staff.
Dorothea, uxor=j=Hiunfridus Welles,r
prima, filia primogenitus ; bis
Rad'i Okeover
de Okeov' et
una hasredum.
nuptus ; sup'stes
1583.
:Katherina, filia
Jacobi Weston
de Lechfeilde.
Wal terns,
2 filius.
Joh'es, primogenitus, ?etat. 7 an'or'.
Rob'tus, 2 filius.
Humfrey Welles.
m)t Outavtnjmgcs of Mx Wltllt* of ^oI^CTvosjsc m
©om. Staff.
1. Sa., a bucke's heade cabashed or. Welles.
2. Ar., a fesse and 3 lozenges in cheefe sa., for his difference a mullett.
Aston.
3. Argente, a bende sa., a cheefe varry or and gu. Fitzherbert.
4. Ar., too barres sa., a canton or. Marshal.
5. Er., on a cheefe gu. 3 besantes. Oke'r.
6. Party per pale indented sa. and ar. Attlowe.
7. Azu., a bende fesile ar. Grin.
His creast a bunch of Holy v\ beryed gu., banded ar. and sa., the
endes { fcu? ,eJ ? l^ \ * at each side with tassells hangeinge downe on
the one side all or, on the other sa. His mottoe : " En Dieu este
toute."
(The above is upon a loose sheet inserted in the Queen's College MS. at fo. 48b.)
* Sic.
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
147
VNKbitscidtot of Burton,
Arms. — Azure, on a cross quarter-pierced or four chevrons gules.
Crest. — Out of a ducal coronet gules a demi-antelope or.
[Be it noted that ther is a Towne in Staffordshire called Whitgreve,
joyning to the Maner of Bridgford, which is Whitgreve's lands to this
day. (Hatherton MS.)]
Rob'te "Whitgreve, Esq., of Burton juxta castrunr^f
de Stafford, died the 27 H. 6.
Humfrey Whitgreve of Burtoir
juxta castru' de Staff, 1 H. 7.
:. . . . daughter of
.... Eggerton of
Wrinehill.
Thomas, 2 son, of
Longford in
Shropshire, s.p.
Rob te Whitgreve, Esquger, of=j=Margery, da. of Thomas Stamforde of
Burton. Rowley, neere Stafforde.
Humfrey Whitgreve of Burton, neere=f=Joyce, da. of Anthony Astley
Stafforde, Esqr; nowe livinge 1583. | of Oslowe in Com. Staff.*
Robert Whitgreve, eldest=j=J«we, da. of John
sonne and heire, set. 1
annor' 1583.
Humphrey, 1st son.
Erdeswgke, 2d
brother.
Elizabeth, onely da.,
m. to Walter Colman,
gent., of Can!:.
Walter,
2 son.
Ediv., 3 son. Jane. Margarett.
Thomas, ^Dorothy,
2 sonne,
of Bridg-
ford in
Staff.
daughter
of Mob.
Nowell of
Hillcott.
George,
3 sonne,
s.p.
Ellen, 1 da.,
ux. John
Babington.
Margarett,
s.p.
Elizabeth, ux.Raufe B ag-
nail of Barlaston, Staff.
Alice, ,f ux. ffenrg Grave-
nor, a younger brother of
Bushberg.
A
I I
Thomas, Walter, 5 sonne, a
4 sonne. fellowe Scoller in
Co. Camb., and
Mar of Arts.
Brigite, 2 da., m.
to Thomas Astley
of Churche Eaton
in Staff.
Lucretia, 1 da.,
ux. Will. Mowl-
lisleg, s. andh. to
Roberte.
* In the Stamford Pedigree, ante, p. 136, Humphrey is stated to have married
da. of George Corbet."
f Vide ante, p. 91, note *.
L 2
148
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
U
Henry Whitgreve, Edwarde, 2 son, of Ilumfrey, fryMarie Kelson
1st son, of Briclg- Canterbury; m.
ford. Elizabeth, da. of
Edward Norton.
son, of
Whitgreve
and Cheb-
sey.
of NortvyTce in
Worcesre.
1. William. 2. Robert. Mary, 1 da. Anne, 2 da.
Humfrey Whitgreve.
(The portion in italics is supplied from Lord Hatherton's MS.)
aw&ortoooti of Compton anil SUitleg*
Arms.* — Argent, a chevron between three buck's heads cabossed sable.
(By the side of the shield is tricked a crescent or, thereon another
crescent gules, no doubt the difference of Whorwood of Lutley.)
Joh'es Whorwood de Compton in Com. Staff., Ar.^f=
.Tohannes-
Whor-
wood.
Ric'di
Corbin.
. filiana Thomas Whorwood,=j=Elizabetha, filia nat'
2 Alius.
Edwardi Sutton,
militis, D'ni Dudley.
Johannes=j=Jocosam, filiam Will'm's Whorwood, duxit=j=Margareta,
Whor-
wood.
Edwardi Grey, Cassandram, filiam Edw.
militis. Grey. Hie Will'us fuit
attornatus generalis R'
H. 8.=r=
ux. 2, filia
Ric'i Brooke,
militis.
Anna, nupta Ambrosio, nunc Comiti War- Margareta, nunc uxor
wick, cui peperit filia' quas simul cum ipsa, Thomas Tkrogmorton,
Anna matre, obierunt sine exitu. Ar.
A B
* Crest : A buck's head cabossed sable, in the mouth an oak-branch proper,
fructed or. (Hatherton MS.)
^ftjjwaSw,
Harry Soarw.IIenil/hc EngravfrSc £ondo>
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
149
|A
Joh'es, EdwardusWhorwood, Eobertus Whorwoode Anthonius.
s.p. duxit Dorothea', de Sandwell, duxit —
filiam .... Bassett. Franciscam, filiam Hieronhnus.
=f= Will'mi Ohelsham.
Thomas Whorwood=j=Magdalena, WhTm's=Anna, filia
de Compton,
superstes 1583.
filia
Edwardes.
Whor-
wood.
Joh'is Feild.
Gerardus Whorwood.
01iverus=rlsabellam, filiam Owinus Whor-
Whor-
wood.
Humfridi Grave- wod, duxit. :
nour.
Eicardus:
Whor-
wood.
. filiam
. Jeloni.
Johannes
Whorwood.
Will'm's Whorwood de Tipton,
nunc superstes 1583.
Gabriell=pMargaretam, Eicardus Whorwood=pJocosam, filiam Will'mi
Whor-
wood.
filiam
Dickenson.
de Luteley in Com.
Staff., sup'stes 1583.
Uvedale, oriundus de
Com. Hampt.
Galfridus Joh'es Whorwood, Oliverus, 2 filius. Emma, 1 filia.
Whorwood. primogenitus — —
filius, setat. 20 Eobertus, 3 filius. Magdalen a,
annor' 1583. — 2 filia.
Will'm's, 1 filius. —
— Jana, 3 filia.
Litleton, 5 filius.
by me John Whorwood.
150
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
STOortoonti of Compton,
Arms. — Argent, a chevron between three lade's heads cabossed sable.
John Whorwoode of Compton in:
the Countie of Stafforde, Esqr.
John "Whorwoode of Compton=^Elizabeth, da. of Richarde Corbyn of
in Com. Staff. Corbin-hall in Com. Stafforde.
John "Whor-
woode of
Compton.
:Joyce, da. of
Sr Rich. Grey,
Knight.
Will'm Whorwood,
2 sonne, Attorney
Generall to H. 8.
Richarde "Whor-
woode, Gierke,
sans yssue.
Anthony "Whorwoode,
mar. and liveth in
Devonsh. and hath
yssue.
Jerome "Whor-
woode; livinge
1583.
John, eldest
sonne, dyed
before his
father, s.p.
"Will'm, slayne
at Bolloygne,
sans yssue.
I
Edwarde Whor-
woode of Comp-
ton.
T)orothe, da.
of Thomas
Bassette of
Hintes.
Rob'te Whorwoode=pFrauncis, da.
of Sandwall in Com.
Staff.
Thomas Whorwoode:
of Compton in Com.
Stafforde, Esqr ;
nowe livinge 1583.
^fagdalene,
da. of Row-
lande Ed-
warde s of
London.
of Will'm
Chelsam of
London.
da. and
Will'm Whorwoode=f=.
of Westbromwich heire of
in Com. Staff. ; Feilde of
nowe livinge 1583.
Gerarde Whorwoode, sonne
and heire, setat. 18 an'or'
1583.
Elizabeth.
Thomas
Whorwoode.
A daugh-
ter.
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
151
ffijaftortoootr of JSobmgton,
Arms. — Argent, on a chevron between three buck's heads cabossed sable,
as many crescents or.
Richard Whorwood of Bobington, a yonger
brother of Whorwood of Whorwood {sic).
Thomas Whorwood of Bobington.
John Whorwood of Bobington.=f Anne, da. of ... . Cookes of Envile.
Henry Whorewoode=p Joane, da. of Will'm Rick- John, 2 sonne, hath
of Bobino-ton.
thorne of Bobington
noe yssue livinge.
Nicholas Eleanor, mar. Elizabeth, Margery Joyce, mar.
Whorwood, to John mar. to John mar. to to Will'm
nowe in Smithe of Haselwoode. Edwarde Hollyman.
Spaine. Staffordsh. Sanson.
Will'm Whor-^=Margaret, JohnWhor-=j= da.
of....
Hoch-
kis of
London.
woode of
Bobington in
Com. Staf-
forde ; nowe
livinge 1583.
da. of wood of
Raulfe London,
Brooke of 2 sonne.
Bobing-
ton.
Frauncis=p da.
Whor-
wood,
3 sonne.
of
Brooke.
Frauncis, eldest=Jane, da. of ... . Richard, Will'm. PMllipe.
sonne, setat. 22 Whitmore of Clare- 2 sonne. (Hather-
an'or' 1583. ley, and his heire. ton MS.)
Wyll'm Whorwood.
152 THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
WLvottc<]) ot Wlvottt&Xcv.
Arms.* — Quarterly — 1 and 4. Or, three piles sable, a canton ermine.
2. Gules, a chevron azure (sic) between three garbs or. 3. Per
pah or and azure, two bars counter changed.
Crest. — Out of a ducal coronet sable, a boar's head and neck argent,
tusked etc. or, charged with an ermine spot.
Sr Hughe Wrotesley, ^Isabell, da, of John Arderne of Aldforde,
Kuighte of the Garter.
Alderleghe, and Echells.
John Wrothesley.:
Hugh Wrotesley of Wrotesley in Com. Staford,=j=Thomasin, da. of
sup'stes 4 H. 4, turn setat. 8 an'or'. Sr John G-resley.
Sr Walter Wrotesley of=pJane, da. and heire of
Wrotesley, Knighte.
Barrey.
* Erdeswick, referring to the Wrottesley arms, remarks that the coat of three
piles and a canton " is set up in the Hall at "Wrottesley with a garter about it and
somewhat old ; and for their crest a boar's head ermine, which this present man
hath changed for a blue boar's head with bristles and tusks issuing forth of a crown
all gold. The coat I know of right to belong to Roger Bassett of Warwickshire,
and not the title or reason why Wrottesley should bear it." In the Roll of temp.
Edward II. (referred to ante, p. 20) the coat of " Sire Eoger Bassett " of " Ware-
wikschire " is as stated by Erdeswick, viz. " de or, a iij peuz de sable, a un quartier
de ermyne," and there is no doubt that these arms, together with the boar's head
crest, were adopted by Sir Hugh Wrottesley, K.G., in right of his mother, Joan,
who was a daughter of Sir Roger Bassett. In a Roll of the latter part of the 14th
century " Hugh de Wryottesley " bears Or, a bend engrailed sable ; and Glover told
Erdeswick that the same coat was " set up at Windsor " for Sir Hugh, K.G. The
second quartering in the Wrottesley atchievement is undoubtedly Baron, and was
brought in by Jane, wife of Sir Walter Wrottesley, who in the above pedigree is
called " da. and heire of ... . Barrey." She was really the only child and sole
heiress of William Barow, of Reading; which William Baron was one of the gentlemen
of Berkshire who bore arms from their ancestors (see Fuller's "Worthies"), and
whose names were returned for the defence of the Kingdom temp. Henry VI. The
Heralds seem to have disliked the " false heraldry " of this coat. In MS. E. D. N. 13.
Coll. Arm., and at the subsequent Visitations of 1614 and 1C63, I find it blazoned
Or, a chevron azure between three garbs gules, and Dr. Plot so blazons it in his
Table XL, dedicated to Sir Walter Wrottesley. Possibly the true blazon should be
Gules, a chevron counter -componee argent and azure between three garbs or, which
is given by Glover in his " Ordinary " as the coat of " Baron, temp. Edw. IV. ; " but
colour upon colour was not so very uncommon in the earlier daj's of Armory. With
regard to the third quartering, wherever it is named it is ascribed to Barrey, and it
would really seem that it was invented by the Heralds for the heiress whom they call
by that name. Shaw (ii., 205) mentions that among the arms formerly in the
gallery at Wrottesley was a shield of Wrottesley impaling " Per pale or, two bars
azure, counterchanged," and under it " Sir Walter Wrottesley, son and heir of
Hugh, married Jane, daughter and heir of AVilliam Barrery, Esq."
Harry Sooth tfemZ&cEri0ra,ver£ /', ■//,/, ■■,■
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583. 153
Richard Wrotesley of Wrotesley,=pDorothe, da. of Edmund,
an0 10 H. 7. j Lo. Dudley.*
Walter Wrotesley=pIsabell, da. of John Harecourt,
of Wrotesley
sonne of Thomas.
John Wrotesley=pElizabeth, da. of Thomas Astley
of Wrotesley.
of Pateshull, E6qr
Walter Wrotesley of=i=Mary, da. of Hugh 2. Thomas. 4. John.
Wrotesley ; nowe Lea of Woodford —
livinge 1583. in Com. Staford. 3. Edward.
Hugh Wrotesley, aetat. 10 annor' 1583.
1. Frauncis, mar. to ... . 2. Dorothe, mar. to Rich- 3. Margaret.
Brooke of Blacldand in arde Whitle [Whethill] of —
the parishe of Bobington. Shepey in Com. Leic. 4. Elizabeth.
Arms. — Quarter!}) — 1. Argent, a chevron engrailed between three bugle-
horns sable, stringed and garnished or. [Wyrley.] 2. Sable,
two lions passant argent, crowned or, each holding in the dexter
paw a fleur-de-lis azure. [Heronvile.] 3. Argent, a bend sabte,
between in chief a rose and in base a fleur-de-lis, both gules.
[Overton.] 4. Sable, a /esse between three sheldrakes argent,
beaked and legged or. [Sheldon.]
Crest. — In a ducal coronet or, two pairs of wings endorsed proper.
Motto. — A pleasance.
These armes thus marshallede by Will'm [Harvey], Clarencielx,
under his hande.
Cornelius de Wirley of Honesworthe in Com. Staford.=p
John Wirley of=j=Anne, da. of Will'm Harpur of Rushall
Hondesworth.
A
in Com. Stafforde.
* She was daughter of Sir Edinuud Sutton, Knt., son and heir of John, Lord
Dudley.
154
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Cornelius de Wirley of=pClaire, da. and heire of John Sheldon of
Hondesworth. Rowley Regis.
Will'ni de=j=Elizabetk, daughter Marke
Wirley of of Richarde Cave de Wirley,
Hondes- ! Com. Northampton, 2 sonne.
worth. i sister to Sr Ambrose.
Margaret, mar. to Will'm
Eton, a yonger brother of
the house of Etons of
Shropshr.
Thomas Wirley:
of Hondes-
worthe, nowe
livinge 1583,
Esqr, Justice
of Peace.
;Dorothe, da.
of Hughe
Harm an,
brother to
the bishoppe
of Excester.
Avery, wife to Rob't
Moseley of Bilston.
Dorothe, wife to
Thomas Cumberford
of Cumberforde.
Brigide, mar. to
John Breton of
Tamworthe.
Anne, mar. to
John Hogettes.
Elizabeth,
wife to
Thomas
Skrim slier
of Johnson.
Judith, wife
to Will'm
Lea de
Biggin in
Com. Buck.
Dorothe, wife
to Roberte
Robsante of
Ouldbery in
Com. Salop.
Martha.
Catherin.
Grace, wife
to Ambrose
Phillippes.
John Wirley ,:
sonne and
heire.
:Godith, da. of
Humfrey
PeytodeCom.
Warwicke.
Abraham Wirley,
2 sonne, mar.
Joane da. of ... .
Avenon.
Thomas, 3 sonne.
Edwarde, 4 sonne.
Humfrey Thomas, 2. John, 4. Richarde, 5. Dorothe, eldestc.
Wirley, — — —
eldest Will'm, 3. Edward, G. Anne, 2.
sonne.
Tho. Wyrley.
gat-Meg of ParWtg.
John Yardley.=p. ... da. of ... . Marbury of Dadesbury.
Oliver Yardley of Yardley:
in Com. Stafford.
John Yardley.=p. ... da. of
Thicknes.
B
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
155
John Yardley of=
Yardley.
•Margarette, da. and heire of John Yardley
of Killingworth in Com. Warw.
John Yardley of=j=Elizabeth, da. of Will'm Byrkes de
Yardleye.
Com. Stafforde.
Will'm Yardley of Yardley in Com.-
Stafforde ; nowe livinge 1583.
(Elizabeth, da. of Will'm Moreton
of Moreton in Com. Cestr.
Anne, eldeste da., mar. to Rob't
Meynell of Derbysheire.
Ellene, mar. to Eycharde Bostoke
of .... in Com. Cestr.
Will'm, eldest sonne ; Raulf,
mar. Margery, da. of sonne.
John Lawton of Law-
ton in Com. Cestr.
John,* eldest sonne,
Eetat. 4, an'o 1583.
John, 3 sonne, George, 4 sonne.
dwellinsre in —
Fryday Streat
wthMrChannd-
ler in London.
Randoll, 5 sonne.
Will'm, 2
sonne.
Eardeley antiqnitus,
nunc Yardeley.
Will'm Erdleye.
The Arms of Yardley or Eardley, as given in the Harl. MS. 6128, and in Lord
Hatherton's MS., are — Quarterly : 1 and 4, Argent, on a chevron azure three garbs
or, a canton gules charged with a fret gold ; 2 and 3, Argent, a scythe sable. Crest :
A stag courant gules, attired and unguled or. The same quartered Arms, with the
additional quarterings of Calcott (Argent, a fesse gules fretty or between three
cinquefoils gules) and Dod (Argent, on a fesse gules, between two cottises wavy
sable, three crescents or), are ascribed in the Harl. MS. 2187 to the Yardleys of
Calcott, Co. Chester, who are stated to be descended from Thomas, brother of Oliver
Yardley of Yardley, living temp. Henry VI., and his wife Emilia, daughter and
heiress of John de Calcott. In the Stukeley MS. is a modern trick (no doubt
inserted by Eardley-Wilmot) of the following atchievement — Quarterly :
1, Yardley or Eardley ; 2, Azure, a buck courant in bend in the dexter chief argent,
pursued by two greyhounds also in bend proper, for "Yardley of Kenilworth;"
3, Argent, a scythe sable, said to be for " Thickness of Warwickshire ; " 4, Argent,
a fesse between three bugle-horns stringed sable, for " Sutton of Cheshire." Crest :
as above.
No Arms appear to have been allowed at this Visitation, for, as will be seen
from the list of those summoned (ante, p. 10), William Yardley was "respited to Sir
Ralph Edgerton's." As to the Arms themselves, the canton is the coat of Audley,
and the blue chevron and garbs seem to have been suggested by the coat of Marbury.
* This John had issue Edward, who had two daughters and coheirs, Elizabeth
and Alice ; the former married to Robert Wilmot, whence the Eardley-Wilmots.
( 156 )
NOTES
ON THE
By Rev. F. PARKER.
The De Wastineys' pedigree, given in this Visitation of 1583,*
on the authority of an old French MS. belonging to the Gresleys, traces
the family in the main line from Hardolph, styled de Gastineys, to
Thomasine, the heiress who married Sir Nicholas Gresley : no notice is
taken of collateral branches ; and there are so many inaccuracies in the
descent that it is thought advisable to republish the pedigree in a more
correct and complete form.
If we may judge from the earliest spelling of the name (de "Gas-
tineys") the family must have come from the district called the
" Gastinois," lying to the south of Paris aud east of Orleans ; thus
much is certain, that the first of the English line was a follower of
Robert de Stafford (al. de Toni) and enfeoffed by that baron both in
his Lincolnshire and Staffordshire estates. The generally received
tradition, as already noticed, would recognise this ancestor in " Ar-
dulph," Lord of the Manor of Osgarthorp under de Ferrers, following
the French MS., which gives him plainly the surname de Gastineys ;
but it rests on no sufficient authority, for, while the long connection of
the de Wastineys with Osgarthorp, and the fact that (c. 1290 a.d.) Sir
Edmond de Wastineys gave the name of Hardulph to his eldest son, are
sound arguments in favour of some relationship, yet Ardulph's claim to
be the founder of the family would need to be established on much
clearer proof, even if it were not directly contradicted by an early char-
ter, which traces his true descent as follows: " Bertmmus de Verdon
omnibus hominibus Francis et Anglis, etc., .... conjirmasse Roberto
filio Walteri et heredibus quas liabebit de Domind Bind uxore ejus filid
Robertifitii Hardulphi Mam terram de Angodesthorpe (Osgarthoq))," etc.
Robert fitz Hardulph had previously received these lands from Bertram
de Verdon, who now settles them on Robert's daughter Dina, her
husband, and their heirs. A subsequent deed of partition of the lands
* Vide pp. 86 and 88.
NOTES ON THE PEDIGREE OF DE WASTINEYS. 157
of Robert fitz Walter and Dina between their coheiresses shews how
Amphelis, the second of the three daughters and coheiresses, in turn
conveyed a portion of them by marriage to Sir Philip de Wastineys :
" Philippo vero de Wastineys et Amphelissa pro parte sua remanent
tenementa Robert! et Dina, et quod Robertas films Walteri tenuit in
Kirkebi, etc., et quod dicta Dina tenuit in Angodesthorpe,^ etc. Thus
the connection between the two families is proved to have been through
the female line, and, however wide the Leicestershire lands which his
great-granddaughter's marriage brought into her husband's name,
Hardolph can have no claim to be called " De Gastineys."
The true founder of the family was Goisfridus described in the
Lincolnshire " Domesday " as " homo Roberti de Stafford," and who held
lands in Brune, Carleby, Braseburg, and possibly in Dentune, besides
the Staffordshire fees at Colton, Tixall, etc., being all portions of the
great de Stafford barony, which were handed down for some centuries
in the De "Wastineys line. The " Liber Niger " and the Fine Roll of
Alan de Nevil, which appears on the Pipe Roll of 13 H. 2, compared,
later on, with the " Testa de Nevil " of both counties, the Hundred
Rolls of Lincolnshire, and other evidence, clearly prove that these
lands were possessed by Sir William and Sir Geoffrey de Wastineys,
circa 1167-8 A.d. Of these knights, the elder, Sir William, could not
have been born later than 1120 a.d., since his sons, together with Sir
Geoffrey, did suit in de Stafford's court between 1158 and 1165
{v. " Staffs. Coll.," vol. 2). This would leave but little time for re-feof-
mentto another family; whilst, supposing Goisfrid to have died without
issue, and an entirely new feofment to have been made, it is all but
impossible that it should have been formed from those identical manors
in the same counties. Mr. Eyton's authority (as General Wrottesley
suggests) may be quoted in support of this view : " That when a
certain tenant is found holding different manors of one feudal lord, and
you meet with the same manors held two or three generations after-
wards by a tenant under the same feudal superiors and by the same
service, the second tenant is the undoubted descendant of the first."
That the name "Geoffrey" continued in the family is proved by
" Liber Niger," and by the pedigree of the Tixal line.
Who succeeded " Goisfrid " we are unable to decide without fur-
ther evidence, for it seems most probable that the William and Geoffrey
de Wastineys of " Liber Niger " were not his sons, but his grandsons,
and, if so, one generation has been lost ; that Sir Geoffrey held the
Tixall fee, and founded that branch of the family is certain from Alan
de Nevill's Roll. Sir William, the elder, was married, we believe, to
Alice de Acton, and had certainly two sons, William and Robert, the
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same already alluded to as present in Robert de Stafford's court, and
again in a Lincolnshire trial of 3 R. 1 (1191 a.d.). After the death
of Robert, his widow Agatha married William de St. Landa, a Lincoln-
shire knight ; a dispute arose about her dower, and she was compelled
to call her son Joceus de Wastineys to be her warrantor, when chal-
lenged by Sir Philip de Wastineys the opponent. The suit will be
found given in the Assize Rolls, and is valuable for the help which it
lends us to understand the pedigree. If we are correct, as the dates
and other evidence imply, Sir Philip was the son of William (2) de
Wastineys by Matthania, sometimes called " de Col ton," because her
dower was settled on that fee, vide the Assize Rolls, circa 1199 a.d.,
where Sir Philip her son is called to warrant his mother's claim. The
same records have preserved a suit for Colton property brought by
"Agnes" and "Anselm" de Wastineys, who were very probably
younger children of William and Matthania. Amongst other trials of
this date is a claim for land at Osgarthorp raised against Sir Philip and
Amphelis his wife, the latter being represented by Elias de Cohnjch, her
attorney. This is worth mention, as another link connecting the
Staffordshire and Leicestershire estates. Joceus de Wastineys, the son
of Robert and Agatha, sued Sir Philip for a freehold in Brune (Lincoln-
shire), and established his right ; in a second attempt for two caru-
cates at Carleby he was less successful, but we learn from the evidence
that he had been brought up as a ward of Sir Philip's. In 7 King
John Sir Philip himself is plaintiff against John, son of Stephen de
Acton, for two- thirds of a fee in Acton (Trussell ?) formerly the property
of Alice his grandmother. The case was referred for trial by the great
Assize, though it had been tried previously when Sir Philip was in
wardship and a minor ; difficulties and delays continued, however, to be
raised, so that at one time we find Geoffrey de Colton, at another Wil-
liam Bagot, appearing for Sir Philip, and the ultimate result has been
lost to us entirely, for the Roll of Feb. 9, 1207, remains unfinished.
Sir Philip de Wasteneys was opposed to King John, but came in
and did homage (vide the Close Rolls) in 1216-17 a.d. at Mount Sorrel.
The Sheriffs of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Staffordshire are there-
fore ordered to give him seizin of his lands. The same Rolls of 1219
contain the Royal Warrant to the Sheriffs of the two former counties,
certifying them that Sir William (3) de Wasteneys, Sir Philip's son
and heir, is authorized to represent his father in all matters concerning
those counties and wapentakes, during Sir Philip's absence in Scotland
on his own business. A single entry in the Assize Roll of 1228 A.D.
gives some insight into the state of public affairs, and suggests no
doubt the right explanation of Sir Philip's sudden recovery of his
NOTES ON THE PEDIGREE OF DE WASTINETS. 159
lands and his reconciliation with the King, already noticed. It comes
out incidentally, when William de Wastineys sues John le Mareschal
for depriving him unjustly of certain Colton lands which his father had
made over to him as part of his maintenance. Until this Assize Roll
came to light it was impossible to account for any"Le Mareschal"
interest in Colton ; but the whole is easily understood when we learn
that Sir Philip had been captured at Mount Sorrel, and carried prisoner
to Nottingham, where John le Mareschal had forced him to sign a sur-
render of the lands in question. The " Le Mareschal " interest was
certainly paramount at Court until the date of the Regent Pembroke's
death in 1219 a.d., whilst the Royal party had so much the upper hand
in that part of Lincolnshire where the de Wastineys property chiefly
lay, that Sir Philip's submission is easily understood, even if this sur-
render of land were not, as is most probable, the ransom which opened
his prison-door. Sir Philip's death must have occurred somewhere
between 1228 and 1235 a.d. ; his wife Amphelis died, we should con-
clude, before 1224, since her son, Sir William, presented in that year to
the living of Osgarthorp, a part of his mother's estate, while Sir Philip
was yet alive.
Sir William de Wasteneys (3) is returned in 1235 A.d. (vide
" Testa de Nevil ") as holding lands in Lincolnshire of Hugh Wake,
Hugh holding of Harvey Bagot by interpolated tenure, and Harvey of
the King in capite of old feofment. Five years later the Crown gave
Sir William the right to hold a weekly market every Friday at his
Colton Manor. The Harl. MS., B. M., No. 506, mentions some grants of
his in the same place, but they are of local rather than general import-
ance. Sir William's wife is called Margaret in the pedigrees, on what
ground we have not been able to discover — probably that of some early
charter ; by her we believe that he left two sons, both bearing their
father's name " William," though the younger is invariably distinguished
as Sir William " le Jovene." It was a practice common enough in
early times to give the same Christian name to two brothers ; indeed,
an instance might be quoted from the Tixall branch of this very family,
where the names of Roger de Wastineys the elder, and Roger the
younger, his brother, occur in the same deed of entail. Few difficulties,
however, could arise to hinder more effectually the exact unravelling of
a pedigree, in its early stage, than this recurrence of the same Christian
name ; for, while the general descent remains beyond dispute, the dates
of succession in each individual case are left uncertain. After carefully
reviewing the whole question, we should conclude that the William de
Wastineys who, with Stephen his brother, witnessed a Leicestershire
deed of Agnes de Gresley, Prioress of Grace Dieu, in 1242 a.d., was the
160 NOTES ON THE PEDIGREE OP DE WASTINETS.
son of Sir William (3) and grandson of Sir Philip. The Stephen here
mentioned must be the same who was admitted (by the Eoyal Warrant to
Philip Marmyun and William Bagod),A.D. 1267, into the King's peace
on giving security for good behaviour, and who gave further proof sub-
sequently of his turbulent character, when sent by his brother William
in 1271 to Emma Bagot's house in Hacunby. It appears from the
Hundred Rolls that the band under his command, not satisfied with
robbing her of property valued at 100s., carried off Simon Bagot her
brother and two Hoyland men prisoners. The latter they beheaded
summarily in the Park at Brune, whilst Simon was kept in captivity
for six years, until Emma Bagot paid Sir William twenty marcs for his
release : a strange picture of the lawlessness of those days. Sir William
de Wasteneys was himself Sheriff of Lincolnshire at the time. The fact
that, both in 1242 and 1271, Stephen is mentioned, with Sir William his
brother, who was certainly living in 1276 A.D., when the suit appears in
the Lincolnshire Hundred Rolls, makes it very unlikely that these could
be Sir Philip's sons, or that Sir William, who would then be at the
least seventy years of age, was the active and tyrannical Sheriff here
represented. On these grounds we prefer to identify the William and
Stephen in question with Sir Philip's grandsons and the sons of
William (3) de Wastineys. On any other supposition there must have
been a William and Stephen in each generation, which is not at all
probable.*
The William de Wastineys who signed a Colton grant together
with William, styled the young Lord (le Jovene), is doubtless the same
who was fourth of his name, and whom we find obtaining (in 1264) the
right of free warren over the Lincolnshire, Staffordshire, and Leicester-
shire lands. The Colton estate of the family that same year is valued
at a knight's fee, and here (as we gather from the Assize Roll 1263)
Sir William " le Jovene " chiefly resided. In 1277 the Post M. Inqui-
sitions prove that he shared certain rights in Colton with William le
Mareschal lately deceased. Probably he did not live beyond 1281, for
the next year John de Wasteneys was the joint Lord with John de
Mareschal of the same land. Two daughters, Alice and Joan, besides
a son William, certainly survived him ; their names occur first in the
Roll as paying half-marc to have an assize. The son there can be
little question is the same William whom we meet again in 1299 and
1317 a.d. as William "le younge Louerd," or Le Lonerd de " Luttle-
hay," and who left a son called Robert, or Robert de " Luttlehay,"
mentioned in 1322.
* The whole question is obscure, and in the absence of better evidence must
remain an open one.
NOTES ON THE PEDIGREE OF DE WASTINEYS. 161
To recur now to the elder line, i.e. to the children of Sir "William, the
Sheriff of Lincolnshire. Besides John, the heir, there was a son Regi-
nald, whose name occurs in 1308, and again in 1322 as the father of
another William {v. Patent Rolls). "We believe that the well-known
Sir Edmond de "Wastineys, who founded the Nottinghamshire branch
of the family, was probably another of Sir "William's sons. Sir John de
"Wastineys married Isabella Hay of Acton in Yorkshire ; like his father,
he too claimed free warren over the Colton estate in 1293 A.D., and
must have been residing there at that time, for, together with Edmond
de "Wastineys, he witnessed a Colton deed of gift. Sir John served
repeatedly on the Great Assize, sometimes with another John de "Wasti-
neys (possibly a younger brother, but that is uncertain) ; he acted also
as a juror for the perambulations of Cannock and Kinver Forests, and
was evidently in possession of the Leicestershire property at Osgar-
thorpe, Threngeston, etc. — witness an action which he brought against
the inhabitants of Tonge and Bredon for sending their swine to feed in
a certain wood, called "Wastenays Wood, situated at Osgarthorpe
(Abbrev. Placit. 1304). As holding two knights' fees in Lincoln-
shire he was summoned to attend the King against the Scotch, the
muster being appointed at Carlisle. The arms of his wife's family are
described to be — " Or, on a chief gules two mullets argent."
Besides two daughters — Constance, named in a deed of 25 Edward
III., and Elizabeth, wife of Sir John Cornwall, Kt. — Sir John left three
sons : Sir William (5), married to Joan Bret, daughter of Sir John Bret
of Norfolk, and widow of Adam de Cailley ; (2) Sir Philip, who, by
Willielma his wife, was father of the Thomas de Wastineys mentioned
on more than one occasion in the Gresley Chartulary (1324 and 1342
a.d.) ; and (3) John, Rector of Cranwicke (Norfolk), a living which
formed part of his sister-in-law's dowry in right of her former husband
Sir Adam de Cailley.
Sir William (5), the next representative of the de Wasteneys, in-
herited a greater estate and influence in five different counties ; person-
ally too he was of an active, enterprising character. We find him
serving in Scotland under Edward I., and not unknown at the Court of
Edward II., if we may judge from the notice in the " Collectanea Topo-
graphica " of the knights who tilted at the great Stepney tournament,
a.d. 1309, where he sided with the party of the Earl of Lancaster.
Proof may be seen in the Parliamentary Writs that in 1332 he was
summoned to assist the Sheriff of Lincoln in keeping the peace, and to
appear at Burton-on-Trent prepared to march on the King's service.
The following year he was ordered to raise 2000 soldiers in the
M
162 NOTES ON THE PEDIGREE OF DE WASTINEYS.
county of Lincoln (vide the Memorandums of Burghersh, Bishop of
Lincoln, and the Parliamentary Writs). Sir William was present at
the Lincoln election in 1334, and was himself returned to the Parlia-
ment at Westminster. In 1325 he was sent by Lord Wake in com-
mand of a body of troops across the seas ; but the climate of Gascony
brought on a disease, that proved rapidly fatal, not long after his return
to England. He left a numerous family of three sons and eight
daughters (vide G-resley Chartulary). The arms of Joan Bret his
wife are — "Argent, a bend gules, billetee of the field."
Sir Thomas de Wastineys, the eldest son and heir of Sir William (5),
was not yet of age when his father died, whereby a difficulty at once
arose touching his wardship and marriage, the latter being claimed by
Lord Stafford, of whom he held the manor of Colton.
How this claim was adjusted we are now unable to say : Sir Thomas
certainly appealed to Lord Wake, his father's patron, to interfere ; and
it can be proved that his marriage with Joanna, daughter of Sir John
Toly of Wymondham, soon took place, because their names occur
together in a Colton deed of 1339 a.d. Sir Thomas was quite as dis-
tinguished a soldier as his father; in 1834 we find him taking out
letters of protection whilst with the King in Scotland ; and again in
1343, when about to pass into France among the retinue of the War-
wickshire Baron Nicholas de Cantilupe ; three years later he was
serving in France under Thomas de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. It
is therefore all but certain that he fought at Cressy ; indeed, the very
next year he is pardoned for all offences he may have committed on
the ground of his good service against the French. The writ,
which is dated at Calais, Septbr 4th 20 Edward III., implies that he
shared likewise in the memorable siege. Sir Thomas was involved in
many law-suits ; down to the year 1364 his name is continually recur-
ring in the Patent and Fine Polls, etc. His brother, John de Waste-
neys, is mentioned in a grant dated 1346 a.d. The other brother may
(we believe) be identified with the Stephen de Wastineys of Brassing-
bury given in the Gresley Chartulary. Isabella, who married Robert de
Jortz, Kt. (1325 a.d.), is the only one of his eight sisters whose name has
come down to us, nor can we in her case speak with absolute certainty.
It is remarkable that Sir Thomas's three sons, William, John, and
Thomas, died childless, thereby defeating all their uncle John's efforts
to perpetuate the family greatness. The estates passed to Thomasine
their sister, and the ancient family of de Wasteneys died out in the
main line.
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INDEX TO NAMES.
Thick figures denote Pedigrees ; Italic figures, Arms.
Names occurring more than once on the same page appear only once in the Index.
Names in the Text are for the most part indexed as properly spelt; "de" is left out
Brackets ( ) are Maiden Names ; = signifies "married to a."
Abell, George, 4.
Abington, Jane=Stamford, 137.
Acton, 60.
Alice=Wastneys, 157.
Isahel=Blount, 135.
Isabel=Broughton, 60, 135.
Joyce=Barnaby, 135.
Stephen, 158.
Walter, 60, 135.
Adderley, 29, 33.
Alice=Conyers, 33.
Dorothy, 33.
Elizabeth=Peverell, 33.
Ellen, 33.
Ellen (Gilbert), 33.
George, 33.
Grace, 33.
Humfrey, 33.
Jane (Thirkell), 128.
Joane (Thirkell), 33.
Joane (Warner), 33.
Joane=Smith, 33.
John, 33.
Margaret (Bagot), 33, 40.
Mary, 33.
Phelice (Milward), 33.
Ralph, 5, 29, 33, 40, 128.
Richard, 33.
Thomas, 33, 128.
Walter, 33.
William, 33.
(Capell), 33.
(North), 33.
Agard, 27.
Catherine=Brook, 56, 57, 58.
Clement, 57, 58.
George, 5.
Humfrey, 5.
William, 5.
Alcock, Alice=Leigh, 101.
Allen, Anne, 123.
Charles, 123.
Allen — continued.
Christopher, 123.
Dorothy, 123.
Eleanor=Coyney, 66.
Elizabeth, 123.
Ethelreda (Paget), 123.
Prances, 123.
Henry, 123.
John, 123.
Mary, 123.
Thomas, 123.
William, 66, 123.
=Bilston, widow, 124.
=Petit, 124.
Allesley, 103.
Geoffrey, 105.
=Cocke, 105.
Allyn, =Cholmeley, 63.
Alphegh, 93.
Ampe, John, 28.
Amphelissa, da. of Robert fitz Walter, 157.
Andrews, Joan (Corbett), 65.
John, 65.
Anneford, Alice=Bowles, 104.
Appleby, Henry, 21.
Arblaster, 34, 34.
Alice, 34.
Catherine (Laynham), 34.
Edmund, 34.
Prances=Callangwood, 34.
George, 34.
Humfrey, 34.
Jane=Holland, 34.
John, 34.
Maud=Bagot, 34, 40.
Michael, 34.
Richard, 34, 40.
Thomas, 5, 34, 40.
(Martyn), 34.
Arden, 5.
Elizabeth=Leveson, 107.
Simon, 5, 19.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Arderne, 22, 57.
Isabel=Wrottesley, 152.
John, 52, 57, 152.
Maud, 52.
Maud (Pilkington), 57.
Maud (Stafford), 51, 57.
Maud=Stauley, 52, 57.
Thomas, 22, 51, 57.
Askby, Joyce (Salway), 51.
William, 51.
Ashenhurst, 35, 35.
Alice (Belott), 35.
Anne, 35.
Anne=Skerard, 35.
Catherine (Okeover), 35.
Dorotky=Eothewall, 35.
Elizabeth (Beard), 35.
Elizabeth=Lownes, 35.
Grace=Manyfold, 35.
Jane (Twyford), 35.
Joan=Hill, 35.
John, 6, 15, 35.
Joyce (Miller), 35.
Joyce=Bulkeley, 35.
Lawrence, 35.
Margaret=Bayner, 35.
Margery (Collyer), 35.
Ealph, 35.
Thomas, 35.
William, 35.
Ashfield, John, 108.
Joyce=Leveson, 108.
Aspland, Mary=Noel, 117.
Aspley or Astley, John, 3.
Astley, 30, 36, 94.
Alice, 49.
Anthony, 147.
Bridget (Whitgreave), 147.
Catherine (Willoughby), 36.
Dorothy (Giffard), 36, 83.
Drue, 134.
Elizabeth (Beauchamp), 36.
Elizabeth (Harcourt), 36, 94.
Elizabeth=Wrottesley, 36, 153.
Gilbert, 11, 18, 30, 36, 39, 83.
Giles, 49.
Henry, 134.
Hugh, 36.
Jane=Bagot, 36, 40.
Joan (Gresley), 36.
Joan (Oteley), 36.
Joan=Grey de Euthen, 36.
John, 3, 16, 36.
Joyce=Whitgreave, 147.
Margaret (Butler), 36.
Margaret (Stamford), 134.
Margery (Aston), 36, 39.
Mary, 134.
Mary (Talbot), 36.
Eichard, 36, 40, 134.
Sibilla=Bassett, 49.
Astley — continued.
Thomas, 36, 94, 147, 153.
Walter, 36.
William, 36.
Aston, 23, 26, 37, 37, 145, 146.
Alice (Meynell), 44.
Alice= Welles, 145.
Anne, 38.
Anne (Lucy), 39.
Anthony, 39.
Catherine, 39.
Catherine=Broughton, 59, 60.
Catherine=Gresley, 38, 85, 89.
Catherine=Okeover, 121.
Cecilia=Welles, 145.
Devereux, 39.
Edward, 8, 39, 85, 89, 92, 121.
Eleanor=Peyto, 39.
Ellen, 38.
Elizabeth, 39.
Elizabeth (Delves), 37.
Elizabeth (Lee), 37.
Elizabeth (Leveson), 39.
Elizabeth=Bassett, 38, 47.
Erances=Nedeham, 38.
Hastings, 39.
Isabel, 38, 50.
Isabel=Bagot, 37, 40.
Isabel=Okeover, 38.
Jane (Draycott), 37.
Jane=Bowles, 38.
Jane=Crompton, 39.
Joan, 37.
Joan (Brereton), 37.
Joan (Littleton), 109.
Joan alias Elena (Littleton), 38.
John, 37, 38, 47, 59, 109, 145.
Joyce (Erevill), 37.
Leonard, 39.
Margaret=Egerton, 142.
Margaret=Tyrrell, 142.
Margery=Astley, 36, 39.
Mary, 39.
Mary (Spencer), 39.
Mary (Vernon), 38.
Mary=Harcourt, 38, 92.
Parnell=Biddulph, 37.
Petronill=Biddulph, 50.
Eichard, 37, 39, 145.
Eobert, 37, 39, 40, 50, 121.
Eoger, 23, 37.
Thomas, 24, 37, 71.
Walter, 8, 18, 26, 36, 39.
William, 38, 39.
(Borough), 39.
(Clerk), 39.
(Creswell), 39.
(Dalyson), 39.
=;Curzon, 38.
Atcombe, Alice, 134.
Anne, 134.
INDEX.
165
Atcornbe — continued.
Edmund, 134.
Elizabeth, 134.
Elizabeth (Stamford), 134.
=Dickens, 134.
Atlowe, 120, 146.
Audley, 22, 23, 26, 155.
jadis, 23.
Walter, 22.
Avenon, Joan=Wyrley, 154.
Aynion, Margery=Cholmeley, 63.
Morris, 63.
Babington, Anthony, 136.
Edith (Eitzherbert), 75.
Elizabeth=Okeover, 121.
Ellen (Whitgreave), 147.
Henry, 78.
John, 147.
Joyce (Stamford), 136.
Margery=Eitzherbert, 72, 74.
Mary (Darcy), 78.
Matthew, 136.
Robert, 72, 74.
Thomas, 75, 121.
(Stanley), 136.
Badger, Robert, 8, 14.
Badley, Anne (Unwin), 143.
John, 55.
Margaret=Brett, 55.
Thomas, 143.
Baginholde, see Bagnall.
Bagnall, 26.
Elizabeth (Whitgreave), 147.
Margaret=Bartram, 43.
Nicholas, 43.
Ralph, 18, 43, 147.
Randall, 29.
= Brett, 55.
Bagot, 22, 27, 39, 39.
Bagot (Stafford), 27.
Aleonora=Carwardine, 40.
Anne (Josceline), 40.
Anne (Montgomery), 40.
Anne=Broughton, 41.
Anne=Kniveton, 40.
Anthony, 41.
Beatrix (Villiers), 39.
Dorothy, 41.
Emma, 160.
Emma (Kniveton), 40.
Harvey, 159.
Isabella (Aston), 37, 40.
Isabella (Curzon), 40.
Isabella=Dunholme, 40.
James, 128.
Jane (Astley), 36, 40.
Jane=Brereton, 40.
Jane=Curzon, 40.
Jane=Thirkell, 128.
John, 22,\Z1, 39, 40, 71.
Bagot — continued.
Letitia, 41.
Lewis, 34, 37, 40.
Margaret, 41.
Margaret (Vernon), 40.
Margaret=Adderley, 33, 40.
Margaret=Bradbome, 40.
Margaret=Davenport, 40.
Mary (Saunders), 40.
Maud=Arblaster, 34, 40.
Ralph, 39.
Richard, 8, 17, 36, 37, 40.
Simon, 160.
Stephen, 40.
Thomas, 33, 36, 37, 40.
Walter, 41.
William, 158, 160.
(Boteler), 40.
=Kniveton, 40.
Bagshawe, 41, 41.
Edward, 41.
Elizabeth, 41.
Elizabeth (Ruggeley), 41.
George, 28.
Joan (Linaker), 41.
Nazareth, 41.
Nicholas, 5, 41.
Osmond, 41.
Robert, 41.
Thomas, 41.
William, 41.
(Browne), 41.
Bakepuz, 87.
Elizabeth=Gresley, 86, 87.
John, 86, 87.
Bambury, Catherine (Stamford), 134.
Edward, 134.
John, 134.
Banaster, Mary=Hawkes, 97.
Roger, 97.
Barantine, 93.
Erancis, 92.
Margaret=Harcourt, 92.
William, 92.
Barber, Anne=Thickness, 139.
Edward, 8, 14, 17.
Robert, 139.
Barford, Joyce (Everard), 70.
Thomas, 70.
Barker, Alice=Leigh, 101.
Catherine=Vise, 145.
John, 101, 145.
Barlow, Dorothy (Coyney), 66.
Dorothy=Foljambe, 77.
James, 66.
Maud (Eitzherbert), 73.
Barnaby, Joyce (Acton), 135.
Richard, 135.
Thomas, 135.
Barnes, Mary=Unwin, 143.
Barnesley, James, 16.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Baron, 152.
Jane=Wrottesley, 152.
William, 152.
Barrery, Joan=Wrottesley, 152.
William, 152.
Barrett, Fulke, 61.
=Broughton, 61.
Barrey, 152.
Jane=Wrottesley, 152.
Bartram, 42, 42.
Agnes, 43.
Agnes (West), 43.
Agnes (Lawton), 43.
Edward, 43.
Elizabeth (Leigh), 43.
Ellen=Broughton, 61.
Eve, 42.
Eve (Globard), 43.
George, 8, 42, 43.
Grace, 43.
Hugh, 43.
Helen, 43.
Henry, 42.
James, 43.
Joan, 43.
Joan (Cokenage), 42.
John, 42, 43.
Margaret, 43.
Margaret (Bagnall), 43.
Nicholas, 42.
Philippa, 42.
Randall, 43.
Richard, 43.
Robert, 43.
Thomas, 43.
Warburgh, 43.
Warburgh (Lawton), 43.
William, 42, 43.
Basford, John, 6, 15.
Bassett, 22, 44, 45, 45, 46, 47, 47,
48, 49, 152.
Alice (Dryby), 49.
Alice=Moton, 49.
Anne (Cokayne), 45, 46.
Catherine=Fairfax, 49.
Catherine=Sutton, 49.
Cecilia=Erdeswick, 46.
Dorothy, 45.
Dorothy=Whorwood, 149, 150.
Edmund, 46, 48, 49.
Edward, 5, 19, 45, 49.
Eleanor (Littleton), 45.
Elizabeth (Aston), 38, 47.
Elizabeth (Colville), 49.
Elizabeth (Dunham), 49, 106.
Elizabeth (Fitzherbert), 45, 46, 76.
Elizabeth (Meverell), 45, 46.
Elizabeth=Grey, 49.
Ellen (Cotes), 45.
Ellen (Egerton), 47.
Ellen (Montgomery), 47.
Bassett — continued.
Francis, 45.
Isabel (Ridware), 45.
Isabel (Boteler), 49.
Joan, 46.
Joan (Braylesford), 48.
Joan (Byron), 38, 46.
Joan=Shirley, 48.
Joan=Wrottesley, 152.
John, 46, 47, 4S, 49, 71.
Margaret (Dethick), 44, 46.
Margaret=Copwood, 45.
Margaret=Egerton, 47.
Margery (Meringe),-49.
Maud (Beke), 46, 48.
Maud=Okeover, 45, 121.
Nicholas, 47.
Osbert, 47.
Ralph, 46, 47, 48, 49.
Richard, 48, 49, 106, 110.
Robert, 47, 48, 49, 110.
Roger, 152.
Sibilla (Astley), 49.
Simon, 47, 49.
Thomas, 45, 48, 49, 150.
William, 6, 19, 38, 44, 45, 46, 47,
48, 49, 76, 110, 121.
(Burgh), 49.
(Chetwind), 45.
(Lisieux), 48.
=Powtrell, 49.
Bate, 115.
Agnes=Moseley, 115.
John, 115.
(Colman), 115.
Baylie, William, 28.
Beard, Elizabeth=Ashenhurst, 35.
William, 35.
Beauchamp, 116.
Elizabeth, 36.
Elizabeth=Astley, 36.
Elizabeth=Nevil, 116.
Guy, Earl of Warwick, 36.
Richard, Earl of Warwick, 116.
Tbomas, Earl of Warwick, 36, 162.
Bedle, John, 14.
Beke, 24, 45.
Alice, 46.
de Eresby, 93.
Maud=Bassett, 46, 48.
Thomas, 24, 46.
Bellew, 93, 103.
Bellott, Alice=Ashenhurst, 35.
John, 35.
Bennett, , 23.
Bentley, 23.
Walter, 23.
William, 23, 72.
Beresford, 8.
Adam, 70.
Joan=Ferne, 70.
INDEX.
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Beresford — continued.
Sampson, S.
Berington, Elizabeth (Bowyer), 54.
Joan (Venables), 54.
Thomas, 54.
William, 54.
Berkeley, 116.
=Leigh, 102.
Berners, Lord, John Bourchier, 116.
Berwicke, John, 2.
Beverley, Jane (Broughton), 60.
Richard, 60.
Biddulph, SO, 50.
Agnes=Brownson, 50.
Bridget, 51.
Catherine, 51.
Catherine=Calverley, 51.
Cicely (Overton), 50.
Dorothy, 51.
Elizabeth=Leigh, 51.
Ellen (Greenway), 50.
Francis, 8, 17, 51, 83, 126.
Henry, 50.
Isabel=Giffard, 51, 83.
John, 8, 50, 51.
Joyce=Porter, 51.
Margaret (Salway), 51.
Mary=Eudyard, 51, 126.
Parnell (Aston), 37.
Petronill (Aston), 50.
Randall, 50.
Richard, 37, 50, 51.
Robert, 50.
Roger, 50.
Simon (?), 28.
Thomas, 50.
Ursula, 51.
William, 50.
Billett, John, 143.
Ursula=TJnwin, 143.
Bilston, Geoffrey, 124.
(Allen), 124.
Bird, John, 28.
Nicholas, 28.
Birmingham, Fulke, 107.
Joyce=Leveson, 107.
Biron, see Byron.
Blackborne, William, 28.
Blithe, 115.
Margaret=Moseley, 115.
Mary=Fowler, 79.
Thomas, 115.
Blithfield, 39.
Blore, Edmond, 28.
Blount, 30.
Catherine (Grey), 136.
Catherine (Stamford), 136.
Edmund, 30.
Eleanor=Dickens, 67.
Ellen (Byron), 38.
Henry, 136.
Blount — continued .
Isabel (Acton), 135.
John, 28.
Margery=Stamford, 136.
Thomas, 136.
Walter, 38, 135, 136.
=Oteley, 36.
Bloyde, see Lloyd.
Bodeley, Elizabeth=Tyrrell, 141.
Thomas, 141.
Boffrey, 25.
John, 25.
Boghey, 113.
Alice=Mainwaring, 113.
Robert, 113.
Bohe, (Harcourt), 95.
Bold, Roger, 72.
Bolinghull, Alice=King, 68.
John, 68.
Margery, 68.
Ralph, 68.
Richard, 68.
Bonington, Joan=Wells, 145.
William, 145.
Booth, Alice=Fitzherbert, 72, 74.
Henry, 72, 74.
John, 38.
Margery=Byron, 38.
Borough, Edward, 39.
Henry, 39.
John, 39.
Walter, 39.
=Aston, 39.
Bostock, Ellen (Yardley), 155.
Richard, 155.
Boteler, Isabel=Bassett, 49.
Thomas, 40.
William, 49.
=Bagot, 40.
Botreux, Anne=Littleton, 109.
John, 109.
Bough, =Vise, 144.
Bourchier, Jane=Neville, 116.
John, Lord Berners, 116.
Bourne, Eleanor (Brett), 55.
John, 55.
Mary (Unwin), 143. ■
William, 143.
Bowes, 5, 21, 51.
Anne (Huddleston), 53.
George, 82.
Jane (Talbot), 82.
John, 5, 20, 21, 53.
Richard, 53.
(Kebell), 53.
Bowett, 103.
Elizabeth (Zouche), 105.
Elizabeth=Chaworth, 105.
Elizabeth=Dunham, 105.
Margaret=Chaworth, 105.
Nicholas, 105.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Bowles, 103, 103.
Agnes (Hambury), 104.
Alice (Anneford), 104.
Alice (Rushall), 104.
Catherine=Grobbere, 104.
Catherine=Hewett, 104.
Elizabeth (Giffard), 104.
Hugh, 104.
Jane (Aston), 38.
Thomas, 38.
William, 104.
Bowthe, Jane (Brett), 55.
Thomas, 55.
Bowyer, 53, 53.
Alice, 54. 55.
Alice=Sergeaunt, 54.
Andrew, 54.
Anne, 55.
Anne (Haywood), 55.
Anne (Harcourt), 93.
Anne= Wedgwood, 51.
Catherine (Brereton), 54.
Catherine (Knipersley), 54.
Elizabeth, 54, 55.
Elizabeth (Bucknall), 54.
Elizabeth (Leveson), 54.
Elizabeth=Berington, 54.
Ellen, 54, 55.
Ellen=Dorington, 54.
Ellen=Rayne, 54.
Francis, 55.
George, 55.
John, 54, 55.
Margaret=Ford, 55.
Maud=Edge, 54.
Richard, 55.
Thomas, 8, 54, 55.
Ursula, 55.
William, 8, 54, 55.
(Cotton), 54.
(Erdeswick), 54.
(Fox), 54.
(Stone), 54.
(Trubshaw), 54.
Bracy, Margaret=Harcourt, 96.
William, 96.
Bradborne, 40.
Agnes=Okeover, 121.
Benedicta=Fitzherbert, 73, 75.
Henry, 40.
Isabel (Ridware), 45.
John, 73, 75.
Margaret (Bagot), 40.
Bradbury, Jane=Leveson, 106.
Thomas, 106.
Braddock, 30.
Cassandra (Humfreston), 81.
Edmund, 30.
Edward, 8.
John, 81.
=Harcourt, 95.
Bradshaw, John, 79.
Margaret=Fowler, 79.
Braylesford, Joan=Bassett, 48.
Henry, 48.
Brereton, Alice=Rudyard, 126.
Andrew, 54, 143.
Catherine=Bowyer, 54.
Elizabeth=Cholmeley, 62.
Hugh, 126, 143.
Jane (Bagot), 40.
Joan=Aston, 37.
John, 143.
Margaret=TJnwin, 143.
Maud=Noel, 117.
Ralph, 62, 95.
Urian, 40.
William, 37.
=Harcourt, 95.
Breton, Bridget (Wyrley), 154.
John, 154.
Brett, 30, 55, 88, 162.
Anne (Wood), 55.
Cicely (Fitton), 55.
Edward, 8, 17, 29, 30, 55, 56.
Eleanor=Bourne, 55.
Ellen, 56.
Ellen (Brock), 55.
Isabel, 55.
Jane=Bowth, 55.
Joan, 162.
Joan=^Cailley, 161.
Joan=Wastneys, 86, 88, 161.
John, 56, 86, 88, 161.
Margaret, 55, 56.
Margaret (Badley), 55.
Margaret (Chetwind), 56.
Nicholas, 55.
Ralph, 56.
Randolph, 8, 55, 56.
Thomas, 8, 55, 56.
William, 55, 56.
(Bagnall), 55.
Brettayne, 29.
John, 5, 29.
=Leveson, 107.
Brock, Anthony, 55.
Ellen=Brett, 55.
Henry, 8, 14.
Brome, 25.
Bromfield, 25.
Bromley, 1 03.
John, 59, 105.
Margaret=Broughton, 59.
Margaret=Harpur, 105.
Brook, 56, 56, 57, 57.
Catherine (Agard), 56, 57, 58.
Eleanor, 57, 58.
Frances (Wrottesley), 153.
James, 56, 57, 58.
Jerome, 53, 57.
John, 53, 56, 58.
INDEX.
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Brook — continued.
Lucy, 57, 58.
Lucy (Huddleston), 53, 56, 58.
Margaret=Whorwood, 148, 151.
Mary (Giffard), 83.
Mary=Leveson, 108.
Ralph, 11, 18, 151.
Richard, 3, 56, 83, 148.
Robert, 5, 53, 56, 57, 58, 108.
Susan, 57, 58.
Thomas, 56, 58.
William, 56, 57, 58.
=Whorwood, 151.
Brookes, Robert, 5.
Broughton, 58, 58, 60, 60.
Andrew, 61.
Anne (Bagot), 41.
Anne (Broughton), 61.
Anne=Broughton, 61.
Anne=Vise, 60.
Audley (Holstock), 61.
Bryan, 59, 60.
Catherine, 60, 61.
Catherine (Aston), 59, 60.
Christopher, 61.
Dorothy, 60.
Edmund, 61.
Edward, 5, 60, 61.
Eleanor (Ruggeley), 61.
Elias, 58.
Elizabeth, 61.
Elizabeth (Harcourt), 61.
Elizabeth (Thorpe), 61.
Elizabeth (Young), 59.
Elizabeth=Dodd, 60.
Ellen (Barton), 61.
Ellen (Greenway), 59.
Ely, 59.
Eve (Greenway)* 59.
Francis, 59, 60, 61.
Eulke, 61.
Humfrey, 59.
Isabel (Acton), 60, 135.
Jane=Beverley, 60.
Jane=Winston, 60.
John, 8, 14, 58, 59, 60, 61.
Julian (Charnes), 59.
Julian (Napton), 59.
Lewis, 61.
Margaret, 60.
Margaret (Bromley), 59.
Margaret (Sandford), 59.
Margaret (Young), 59.
Margery=Vise, 144.
Mary, 60.
Mary (Ros), 60.
Maud, 61.
Peter, 60.
Reginald, 59.
Richard, 28, 41, 59, 60, 61.
Roger, 59, 60.
Broughton — continued.
Thomas, 8, 58, 59, 60, 61, 135.
Ursula=Eairfax, 60.
William, 58, 60, 61.
(Barrett), 61.
(Greenway), 59.
(Harcourt), 96.
(Napton), 59.
(Reynold), 59.
Browne, Anthony, 77.
Lucy (Neville), 77.
=Bagshaw, 41.
Brownlow, Eoljambe alias, 78.
Brownson, Agnes (Biddulph), 50.
Richard, 50.
William, 50.
Brudnall, Edmond, 70.
John, 70.
Mary (Everard), 70.
Bruges, Jane (Spenser), 92.
Richard, 92.
Brus, 93.
Bruyn, 141.
Bucknall, Elizabeth=Bowyer, 54.
Jane (Coyney), 65.
John, 54.
Thomas, 8, 14, 65.
Bulkeley, 103.
Arthur, 35.
Joyce (Ashenhurst), 35.
Burgate, 141.
Burgh, 103, 114.
=Bassett, 49.
Burleigh, Lord, 26.
Burley, Elizabeth=Trussell, 108.
Joan=Westcott, 108.
John, 108.
(Grey), 108.
Burnell, 65.
Burnes, John, 28.
Burway, Richard, 28.
Busby, Thomas, 17.
Bushbury, 23, 90.
Henry, 23.
Richard, 90.
=Clayton, 90, 107.
=Leveson, 107.
Butler, 23.
Edward, 23.
Elizabeth, 36.
Margaret=Astley, 36.
Thomas, 36.
Byddulle, Simon, 28.
Byrkes, Elizabetk=Yardley, 155.
William, 155.
Byron, 37, 45.
EUen=Blount, 38.
Joan=Bassett, 38, 46.
John, 38, 46.
Lucy, 46.
Margery (Booth), 38.
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THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 15S3.
Byron — continued.
Margery= Welsh, 46.
Nicholas, 38.
Eichard, 38, 46.
Caddy, =Umvin, 143.
Cailley, Adam, 161.
Joan (Brett), 161.
Calcott, 155.
Ernilia=Yardley, 155.
John, 155.
Callangwood, Frances (Arblaster), 34
Calverley, Catherine (Biddulph), 51.
Richard, 51.
William, 51.
Camden, Alice (Rudyerd), 127.
William, 127.
Camville, 57, 93.
Lord, 51.
Matilda=Stafford, 51, 57.
William, 57.
Cantilupe, Nicholas, 162.
Capell, =Adderley, 33.
Capenhurst, 62.
=Cheyney, 62.
Carden, Thomas, 5.
Carey, Catherine (Knivet), 123.
Edward, 123.
Cariswall, Peirs, 23.
Carter, Anne (Hawkes), 97.
Thomas, 97.
Carwardin, Aleonora (Bagot), 40.
Robert, 40.
Thomas, 40.
Cassy, 83.
Cassandra (Giffard), 83.
Francis, 83.
Henry, 83.
Thomas, 83.
Cave, Ambrose, 154.
Amice=Hunt, 100.
Elizabeth=Wyrley, 154.
Richard, 154.
Thomas, 100.
=Harcourt, 95.
Cawne, Thomas. 22, 23.
Cecil, Robert, 26.
Chamberlain, Elizabeth (Harcourt), 92.
Richard, 92.
Chancefield, Frances (Walker), 80.
Thomas, 80.
Chandos, John, 22, 23.
Charlton, Simon, 59.
=Napton, 59.
Charnes, Jnlian=Bronghton, 59.
Chaterley, Elizabeth=;Unwin, 142.
Stephen, 142.
Chatterton, John, 28.
Chaundler, Mr., 155.
Chaworth, Elizabeth (Bowett), 105.
Margaret (Bowett), 105.
Chaworth — continued.
John, 105.
William, 105.
Chelsam, Frances=Whorwood, 149, 150.
William, 149, 150.
Chetleton, 25, 103.
William, 25.
Chetwynd, 8.
Anthony, 139.
Catherine (Thickness), 139.
John, 8, 146.
Margaret=Brett, 56.
Mary (Welles), 146.
Thomas, 56.
=Bassett, 45.
Cheyney, 62.
John, 62.
Maud=Cholmeley, 62.
(Capenhurst), G2.
Child, John, 72.
Chitwode, Isabel (Noel), 117.
Thomas, 117.
Cholmeley, 3, 62, 62.
Anne (Doleinan), 63.
Anne (Hastings), 63.
Anne=Mainwaring, 62.
Bennet, 63.
Catherine=Priestland, 62.
Dennis (Phillips), 63.
Edward, 3, 63.
Eleanor (Langton), 63.
Elizabeth (Brereton), 62.
Elizabeth (Michell), 63.
Elizabeth (Slaide), 63.
Elizabeth (Talbot), 62.
Elizabeth=Hanmer, 62.
Ellen (Davenport), 62.
Ellen=Hassall, 62.
Frances, 63.
George, 62.
Henry, 63.
Hugh, 62, 63.
Humfrey, 63.
Isabel (Hare), 63.
Joan (Turner), 63.
John, 62, 63.
Kenryke, 62.
Margery (Aynion), 63.
Maud (Cheyney), 62.
Maud (Chorley), 62.
Nicholas, 63.
Randall, 62, 63.
Richard, 62, 63.
Robert, 63.
Thomas, 63.
Ursula=Standley, 62.
William, 62, 63.
(Allyn), 63.
(Button), 62.
(Pixstock), 62.
(Powell), 63.
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Cliolraeley — continued.
=Hinton, 62.
Chorley, Maud=Cholmeley, 62.
Clapton, Anne=Strethay, 137.
Clarell, 89.
Elizabeth (Scroope), 76.
Elizabeth=Fitzwilliam, 76.
Margery =Gresley, 85, 89.
Matilda (Montgomery), 89.
Thomas, 76, 85, 89.
Claxson, Alice=Rugeley, 127.
William, 127.
Clayton, 45, 90, 103.
Elizabeth (Vise), 145.
Helena=Leveson, 107.
John, 90, 107.
Rose=Grosvenor, 90, 107.
Thomas, 29.
William, 145.
■ (Bushbury), 90, 107.
Clement, Agnes=Leveson, 106.
William, 106.
Clerk, Anne, 123.
Barnabas, 96.
Edward, 16.
Eleanor (Paget), 123.
Elizabeth, 123.
Isabel (Harcourt), 96.
Joan (Harcourt), 93.
Margery=Rugeley, 128.
Rowland, 123.
= Aston, 39.
alias Greenway, Edward, 3.
alias Welles, John, 90.
Clerkson, Anne=Everard, 70.
Richard, 70.
Cliff e, Margaret, 112.
Richard, 112.
Clifton, Catherine=Eitzwilliam, 76.
John, 76.
Clinton, Elizabeth=Fitzwilliain, 76.
Joan (Meynell), 44.
William, Earl of Huntingdon, 76.
Clive, =Harcourt, 95.
Cocke, 103.
Henry, 105.
John, 105.
Margaret=Harpur, 105.
(Allesley), 105.
Cockes, Anne=Whorwood, 157.
John, 146.
Marian=Welles, 146.
Cokayne, Alice=Littleton, 110.
Anne=Bassett, 45, 46.
Barbara (Fitzherbert), 74.
Elizabeth (Meverell), 45, 46.
Francis, 110.
Henry, 45, 46.
Jane (Okeover), 121.
Margaret= Woodson, 45.
Thomas, 45, 46, 74, 110, 121.
Cokenage, 42.
Alice, 42.
David, 42, 43.
Eve, 42.
Eve=Hall, 43.
Eve=Wolriche, 43.
Geoffrey, 42.
Hawise, 42.
Hugh, 42.
Isabel, 42.
Joan, 42.
Joan=Bartram, 42.
John, 42, 43.
Margery, 43.
Peter, 42.
Ralph, 42, 43.
Richard, 42.
Robert, 42.
William, 42.
Coleclough, Anne (Smith), 130.
Anthony, 18.
Bartholomew, 7, 15.
Richard, 130.
Coleman, Elizabeth (Whitgreave), 147.
John, 4, 17.
Walter, 147.
=Bate, 115.
=Endesore, 69.
Coleson, Elizabeth (Giffard), 104.
Collins, Margaret=Harcourt, 96.
Mary (Harcourt), 96.
Thomas, 96.
Colover, 114.
Colton, Geoffrey, 158
Matthania=Wastneys, 158.
Colville, Elizabeth=Bassett, 49.
Colwych, Elias, 158.
Colyar, 64, 64.
Agnes, 64.
Agnes (Venables), 64.
Cecilia, 64.
Christopher, 64.
Elizabeth (Skrimshire), 64.
Isabel, 64.
James, 64.
Letitia, 64.
Margaret, 64.
Margery =Ashenhurst, 35.
Mary, 64.
Richard, 64.
Robert, 8, 64, 129.
Thurstan, 64.
Comberford, 5, 24.
Agnes=Shepy, 68.
Alan, 68.
Anne=Quilet, 68.
Dorothy (Wyrley), 154.
Dorothy=Eiidesore, 69.
Elizabeth=Staniford, 137.
Humfrey, 69, 75.
Margaret (Stanley), 52.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Comberford — continued,.
Margery, 68.
Richard, 68.
Thomas, 20, 52, 137, 154.
William, 5.
(Fitzherbert), 75.
(Harcourt), 95.
Congreve, 4, 24.
Dorothy (Giffard), 81, 82.
Francis, 4, 19.
Geoffrey, 24.
John, 81, 82.
Coningshy, Cicely (Salway), 51.
Elizabeth=Littleton, 109.
Humfrey, 51, 109.
Conyers, Alice (Adderley), 33.
John, 33.
Cooke, 137.
Anne=Goodyer, 135.
Anne=Strethay, 138.
Edward, 134.
Joan (Stamford), 134.
Mary=Tyrrell, 141.
Richard, 135.
William, 138.
(Greve), 135.
Cooper, John, 69.
=Endesore, 69.
Copwood, Margaret (Bassett), 45.
Richard, 45.
(Fitzherbert), 74.
Corbett, 64, 64, 132.
Alice=Stafford, 132.
Anne, 65.
Elizabeth (Spicer), 65.
Elizabeth=Trentham, 140.
George, 136, 147.
Joan (Crouch), 64.
Joan=Andrews, 65.
Richard, 64, 140.
Robert, 64.
Roger, 65.
Thomas, 8, 65, 132.
Walter, 65.
William, 65.
=Whitgreve, 136, 147.
Corbin, Edith=Dickens, 67.
Elizabeth=Whorwood, 150.
Richard, 150.
Thomas, 67.
(Moore), 67.
=Whorwood, 148.
Cornwall, Elizabeth (Wastneys), 161.
John, 161.
Costliffe, Catherine (Persall), 115.
Christian=Moseley, 115.
Robert, 115.
Cotes, Eleanor (Littleton), 45.
Ellen = Bassett, 45.
Cottesmore, Florence (Harcourt), 92.
William, 92.
Cotton, 72.
Anne (Kinnersley), 92.
Elizabeth=Grosvenor, 91.
Grace (Crompton), 67.
Humfrey, 9, 91, 92.
Margaret (Crompton), 67.
Matilda=Fitzherbert, 73, 75.
Richard, 28, 73, 75.
Thomas, 67.
=Bowyer, 54.
Couley, John, 72.
Coyney, 65, 65.
Adam, 66.
Alice (Erdeswick), 65.
Anne (Wolseley), 66.
Cassandra, 66
Dorothy (Meverell), 65.
Dorothy=Barlow, 66.
Edward, 66.
Eleanor=Allen, 66.
George, 66.
Jane, 66.
Jane (Downe), 66.
Jane=Bucknall, 65.
John, 7, 65, 66, 71.
Margery, 66.
Margery (Nedeham), 66.
Margery (Spurstowe), 65.
Mary, 66.
Parnell=Dolman, 65.
Robert, 65.
Susan, 66.
Thomas, 66.
Walter, 65.
Winifred (Skrimshire), 66.
Cradock, Francis, 28.
George, 28.
Jane=Main waring, 113.
Mathew, 4, 28, 113.
Creswell, Joan=Plantney, 125.
John, 11.
Richard, 125.
Thomas, 4.
= Aston, 39.
Croche, Bartholomew, 146.
Margaret (Welles), 146.
Croftes, Sybel=Huddleston, 53.
Crompton, 66, 66.
Anne, 67.
Anne=Noel, 118.
Catherine (Rawson), 66.
Catherine (Richardson), G7.
Elizabeth, 67.
Elizabeth (Girling), 66.
Grace=Cotton, 67.
Hugh, 67.
Jane (Aston), 39.
Margaret, 67.
Margaret=Cotton, 67.
Richard, 7, 66, 67.
Rose=Latus, 67.
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Crompton — continued.
Thomas, 66.
William, 9, 15, 39, 66, 67, 118.
Cromwell, Maud=Fitzwilliani, 76.
Ralph, Lord, 76.
Cross, Cicely (Noel), 118.
Thomas, 118.
Crouch, Joan=Corbett, 64.
Cruchley, James, 28.
Cuhley, Walter, 121.
Cuny, John, 7.
Curzon, 40.
Anne=Strethay, 137.
Isabella=Bagot, 40.
Jane (Bagot), 40.
John, 40.
Thomas, 38.
(Aston), 38.
Dakeyne, William, 2.
Dakyns, Christopher, 2.
William, 2.
Dale, Robert, 28.
Thomas, 29.
Dalyson, =Aston, 39.
Danyers, Margaret=Leigh, 101.
Darcy, John, Lord, 78.
Mary=Babington, 78.
Mary=Foljambe, 78.
Darrell, Agnes=Harcourt, 91.
Thomas, 89.
■ (Gresley), 89,
=Harcourt, 95.
Davenport, Ellen=Cholmeley, 62.
John, 62.
Margaret (Bagot), 40.
Day, Jane (Fowler), 80.
Richard, 80.
De la Hay, Juliana=Humett, 99.
Richard, 29.
De la Pole, 93.
De Vere, Edward, Earl of Oxford, 141.
Elizabeth (Trentham), 141.
Henry, Earl of Oxford, 141.
Delves, Elizabeth=Aston, 37.
John, 37.
Denham, Elizabeth=Bassett, 49.
Dethick, 45.
Joan=Tikhill, 44.
John, 44.
Margaret (Meynell), 44.
Margaret=Bassett, 44, 46.
Margaret=Montgomery, 46.
Margaret=Okeover, 121.
Philip, 44.
Reginald, 44, 46.
Roger, 44.
Thomas, 44.
Thomasin (Meynell), 44, 46.
William, 44.
Devereux, Margaret= Littleton, 110.
Devereux — continued.
William, 110.
Dickens, 67, 67.
Alice, 68.
Alice (Moreton), 68, 114.
Alice=Moreton, 67, 114.
Edith (Corbin), 67.
Eleanor (Blount), 67.
Elizabeth, 67, 68.
Hugh, 67.
Humfrey, 67, 134.
Joan (Lee), 67.
John, 67, 68.
Mary, 68.
Richard, 67.
Thomas, 67, 114.
William, 11, 67, 68, 134.
(Stamford), 134.
Dickenson, Margaret=Whorwood, 149.
Richard, 4, 16.
Digby, Derverguld=Hunt, 100.
Everard, 100.
Dina, filia Rob'ti fitz Hardolph, 156.
Dina, uxor Rob'ti fitz Walter, 157.
Dodd, Elizabeth (Broughton), 60.
George, 60.
John, 130.
Margaret=Smith, 130.
Dolman, Anne=Cholmeley, 63.
G-eorge, 63.
Parnell (Coyney), 65.
Dorington, Ellen (Bowyer), 54.
Richard, 28.
Sampson, 9.
Thomas, 28, 54.
Downe, Jane=Coyney, 66.
Ralph, 66.
=Moreton, 114.
Draycott, 7, 27.
Elizabeth (Fitzherbert), 73, 75.
Elizabeth=Foljambe, 75.
Jane=Aston, 37.
Jane=Noel, 117.
John, 7, 19, 71.
Philip, 4, 73, 75.
Roger, 37.
Drayton, 93.
Dryby, 49.
Alice, 49.
Alice=Bassett, 49.
Alice=Touchet, 49.
Dudley, 22, 26.
Catherine=Gresley, 85, 89.
Edmund, Lord, 153.
Edward Sutton, Lord, 148.
Eleanor (Talbot), 129.
Geoffrey, 129.
John Sutton, Lord, 153.
Lord, 22, 26.
Duffield, Dorothy (Welles), 146.
Richard, 146.
174
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Duncalf, "William, 28.
Dunham, 103, 106.
Anne=Meverell, 106.
Benedicta (Foljambe), 106.
Catherine=Leigh, 102, 106.
Catherine=Okeover, 121.
Elizabeth (Bowett), 105.
Elizabeth=Bassett, 106.
Frances=Hazlewood, 106.
Isabel (Bagot), 40.
John, 102, 105, 106.
Mary=Grantham, 106.
"William, 40.
Dutton, Thomas, 62.
=Cholmeley, 62.
Dynham, Edith=Fowler, 78.
John, Lord, 78.
Eardley, see Yardley.
Eardley-Wilmot, 155.
Edge alias Hawkins, 97.
Edge, Maud (Bowyer), 54.
Richard, 54.
Edwards, Magdalen=.Whorwood, 149,
150.
Rowland, 150.
Egerton, 9, 26, 46.
Ellen=Bassett, 47.
Hugh, 47, 95, 96.
John, 89.
Margaret (Aston), 142.
Margaret (Bassett), 47.
Ralph, 9, 29, 47.
Richard, 47, 105.
Thomas, 28.
(Gresley), 89.
(Harpur), 105.
=Harcourt, 95, 96.
=Whitgreave, 147.
Egginton, Isabel (Moreton), 68, 114.
John, 4, 16, 68, 114.
Ellis, Isabel=Hill, 98.
John, 98.
Thomas, 98.
Elveden, Dionysia=Fitzherbert, 73,
75.
Henry, 73.
Endesore, 68, 6S.
Anne (Hopwas), 68.
Barnaby, 69.
Christopher, 69.
Dorothy (Comberford), 69.
Edward, 69.
Elizabeth, 69.
Ellen (Okeover), 69.
George, 69.
Helen (Savage), 69.
Humfrey, 69.
Isabel, 69.
John, 69.
Richard, 5, 69.
Endesore — cont inued.
Susan, 69.
Thomas, 5, 68, 69.
Walter, 69.
(Coleman), 69.
■ (Cooper), 69.
Englefield, Cecilia=Fowler, 78.
Joan (Rycote), 78.
Nicholas, 78.
Erdeswike, 9, 27.
Alice=Coyney, 65.
Cecilia (Bassett), 46.
Elizabeth (Harcourt), 95.
Henry, 46, 111.
Hugh, 9, 18, 44, 46, 51, 95, 112.
Jane=Whitgreave, 147.
John, 147.
Margaret=Macclesfield, 111.
Margery=Salway, 51.
Sampson, 9.
Thomasin (Meynell), 44.
=Bowyer, 54.
Erdinton, Gyles, 22.
Henry, 22.
Maud (Somerie), 22.
Essex, Earl of, 26.
Robert, Earl of, 9.
Eton, Margaret ("Wyrley), 154.
William, 154.
Everard, 30, 69, 69.
Alice, 70.
Anne (Clerkson), 70.
Catherine, 70.
Edward, 70.
Frances, 70.
George, 69.
Humfrey, 5, 30, 70.
Jane (Waterton), 70.
Joan, 70.
John, 70.
Joyce (Langham), 69.
Joyce=Barford, 70.
Margaret (Wolferston), 69.
Margaret=Wolferston, 70.
Mary=Brudenall, 70.
Maud=Woodhall, 70.
Michael, 70.
Richard, 69, 70.
Robert, 69.
Sampson, 70.
Thomas, 69.
William, 69.
Everdon, 45.
Eyre, 72.
Arthur, 73, 76.
Jane (Fitzherbert), 73.
Rowland, 5.
Thomas, 73.
= Fitzherbert, 73, 76.
Eyton, Anthony, 7, 15.
Thomas, 72.
INDEX.
175
Fairfax, Catherine (Bassett), 49.
Guy, 49.
Robert, 60.
Ursula (Brougliton), 60.
William, 60.
Farmer, Anne=Leigk, 102.
Frances (Hoorde), 105.
John, 102.
Thomas, 105.
Farnham, Robert, 21.
Fawcon, 72.
Feckenham, John, 28.
Feme, 70, 70.
Anne, 71.
Anne (Jackson), 71.
Anne (Sheffield), 71.
Anne=Fitzherbert, 71.
Dorothy, 71.
Douglas, 71.
Edward, 71.
Elizabeth (Nedeham), 71.
Elizabetk=Rothewood, 71.
Joan (Beresford), 70.
John, 7, 15, 70, 71.
Mary, 71.
Phillis, 71.
Phillis (Milward), 70.
Thomas, 70.
William, 70, 71.
alias Miller, John, 35.
Ferrers, Anne=Gresley, 85, 89.
Henry, 52.
Maud (Stanley), 52.
Thomas, 85, 89.
William, 52.
(Stanley), 52.
Fery, Elizabeth (Fitzherbert), 75.
Field, Ann=Whorwood, 149.
John, 149.
=Whorwood, 150.
Fielding, Basil, 39.
Findeme, 71, 71.
George, 72.
John, 71.
Nicholas, 72.
Robert, 71, 72.
Thomas, 72.
Fisher, Margery = Stamford, 133.
Fitton, Cicely=Brett, 55.
Ellen, 112.
Helena=Macclesfield, 111.
Isabel= Vise, 145.
Jenken, 145.
John, 55, 111, 112.
Thomas, 18.
Fitzalan, 93.
Fitzclement, Henry, 106.
Margery=Leveson, 106.
Fitzherbert, 72, 72, 74, 74, 125, 145,
146.
Alice (Booth), 72, 74.
Fitzherbert — continued.
Anne, 73.
Anne (Feme), 71.
Anne (Waynian), 73, 75.
Anne=Heveningham, 74.
Anne= Wells, 73, 75, 146.
Anthony, 45, 46, 73, 74, 75.
Barbara=Cokayne, 74.
Benet (Bradborne), 73,75.
Catherine (Restwood), 73.
Catherine=Sacheverell, 76.
Dionysia (Elveden), 73, 75.
Dorothy (Longford), 73, 75.
Dorothy (Willoughby), 73.
Dorothy=Hill, 98.
Dorothy=Longford, 76.
Dorothy=Port, 76.
Dorothy=Wingfield, 75.
Edith=Babington, 75.
Edith=Listerr 75.
Elizabeth, 73.
Elizabeth (Joscelin), 72.
Elizabeth (Marshall), 73, 75.
Elizabeth (Swinnerton), 74.
Elizabeth (Westby), 74.
Elizabeth=Bassett, 45, 46, 76.
Elizabeth=Draycott, 73, 75.
Elizabeth=Fery, 75.
Elizabeth=White, 75.
Eustace, 73, 74.
Francis, 74.
George, 74.
Grace=Harcourt, 92.
Grace=Robinson, 75, 92, 125.
Helena=Gevelott, 75.
Henry, 73, 74, 75.
Humfrey, 73, 75, 92, 125.
Isabel (Ludlow), 72.
Jane=Eyre, 73.
Joan=Port, 73, 74.
John, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 146.
Margery (Babington), 72, 74.
Margery=Purferey, 75.
Mary, 73.
Mary (Westcott), 74.
Matilda (Cotton), 73, 75.
Maud=Barlow, 73,
Michael, 73, 75.
Nicholas, 72, 73, 74, 75.
Ralph, 73, 75.
Richard, 74, 76.
Robert, 72, 74, 98.
Thomas, 5, 19, 73, 74, 76.
Wilgefort=Tansfield, 75.
William, 74, 76.
(Eyre), 73, 76.
(Joscelin), 74.
=Comberford, 75.
=Copwood, 74.
=Smith, 74.
Fitzwilliam, 76, 76,
176
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Fitzwilliam — continued.
Agnes (Pakenham), 77.
Alice=Foljambe, 77.
Catherine (Clifton), 76.
Edmond, 76.
Elizabeth (Clarell), 76.
Elizabeth (Clinton), 76.
Elizabeth=Gascoigne, 77.
Elizabeth=Wortley, 76.
John, 76.
Lucy (Neville), 77.
Margaret=Foljambe, 77.
Margaret=Gascoigne, 77.
Maud (Cromwell), 76.
Maud (Hotham), 76.
Richard, 76.
Thomas, 77.
William, 76.
"William, Earl of Southampton,
77.
=Mirfield, 76.
=Reresby, 76.
=Skipwith, 76.
=Wentworth, 76.
Flackett, Henry, 7, 15.
Elambert, 141.
Fleetwood, 7, 26.
John, 7, 19.
Flower, (widow)=Noel, 118.
Flyar, Richard, 7, 14.
Foljambe, 77, 77.
Alice (Fitzwilliam), 77.
Benedicta=Dunham, 106.
Catherine, 78.
Catherine (Leeke), 77.
Constance (Littleton), 110.
Dorothy (Barlow), 77.
Elizabeth (Draycott), 75.
Emma (Tunsted), 78.
George, 77, 78.
Godfrey, 7, 77, 78.
James, 77, 110.
Jane (Foljambe), 78.
Jane=Foljambe, 78.
Margaret (Fitzwilliam), 77.
Mary (Darcy), 78.
Trothe, 78.
alias Brownlow, 78.
Folyot, Barbara (Littleton), 110.
John, 110.
Fonte, Anthony, 118.
Elizabeth (Noel), 118.
Ford, Margaret (Bowyer), 55.
Richard, 43.
W., 55.
Forster, Thomas, 145.
Ursula (Vise), 145.
Fowden, Hugh, 9, 14.
Fowke, or Foulke, 4.
Catherine, 112.
Catherine=Macclesfield, 111.
Fowke — continued.
Elizabeth=Leveson, 107.
Jane=Somerford, 131.
John, 4, 91.
Joyce=Grosvenor, 91.
Roger, 4, 91, 107, 131.
Thomas, 5.
William, 111, 112.
Fowler, 27, 78, 7S.
Alice, 79.
Alice (Houghton), 78.
Anne, 80.
Anne=Montford, 80.
Anne=Noel, 118.
Bridget (Mundeford), 79.
Bryan, 9, 17, 79, 80.
Cassandra=Stone, 80.
Catherine (More ton), 79.
Cecilia (Englefield), 78.
Dorothy=Walker, 80.
Edith (Dynhani), 78.
Edmond, 80.
Edward, 78, 79.
Frances=Chancefield, 80.
George, 79.
Isabel, 80.
James, 11, 79.
Jane (Hanmer), 79.
Jane=Day, 80.
John, 80.
Margaret, 79.
Margaret (Bradshaw), 79.
Margaret (Moreton), 79.
Margaret=Lane, 80.
Margery (Lee), 78.
Margery (Lester), 78.
Martha=Skrimshire, 80.
Mary, 79.
Mary (Blithe), 79.
Mary (Lee), 78.
Mary (Lester), 78.
Mary (Sheldon), 80.
Peter, 79.
Richard, 78, 79.
Roger, 79.
Rowland, 79.
Sibil (Leigh), 79.
Thomas, 78, 79.
Walter, 79, 80.
William, 78, 79.
Fox, (Trentham), 140.
= Bowyer, 54.
Foxall, William, 11, 15.
Francis, Jane=Hill, 98.
John, 98.
Joyce=Giffard, 80.
Richard, 100.
Robert, 80.
Susan (Hunt), 100.
Franknell, Susanna (Okeover), 122.
Thomas, 122,
INDEX.
17;
Freville, 37.
Baldwin, 37.
Joyce= Aston, 37.
Frith, Thomas, 5, 15.
Frodeshall, John, 72.
Fylston, M., 129.
Fynney, William, 4, 16.
Gamble, Robert, 9, 14.
Garnett, John, 139.
"Ursula (Thickness), 139.
Gascoigne, Elizabeth (Fitzwilliam), 77.
Margaret (Fitzwilliam), 77.
William, 77.
Gastineys, see Wastneys.
Gattacre, Francis, 9.
Gay wood, John, 9, 14.
Nicholas, 9, 14.
Gerard, Elizabeth (Port), 82.
Margaret=Stanley, 52.
Thomas, 52, 82.
(Port), 81.
Gernon, 87.
John, 86, S7.
Margaret= Gresley, 86, 87.
Gervis, see Jervis.
Gevelott, Helena (Fitzherbert), 75.
Mary, 75.
William, 75.
Gibston, Anthony, 96.
Margaret=Harcourt, 96.
Giffard, 24, 80, SO, 81, 81.
Alianora (Ward), 82.
Anne= Smith, 83.
Cassandra (Humfreston), 80, 81.
Cassandra (Knightley), 80, 81.
Cassandra=Cassy, 83.
Cassandra=Swinerton, 81.
Cassandra=Swynfen, 82.
Cassandra=Wolseley, 83.
Dorothy, 83.
Dorothy (Montgomery), 81, 82.
Dorothy=Astley, 36, 83.
Dorothy=Congreve, 81, 82.
Dorothy=Shirley, 81, 82.
Edward, 82, 83.
Elizabeth, 83.
Elizabeth (Gresley), 81, 82.
Elizabeth=Bowles, 104.
Elizabeth=Coleson, 104.
Elizabeth =Port, 82.
Frances, 82.
Frances (Skerne), 82.
Frances =Talbot, 81, 82.
Francis, 83.
George, 83.
Gerald, 83.
Gilbert, 83.
Giles. 83.
Humfrey, 4, 82.
Isabel=Biddulph, 51, 83.
Giffard — continued.
Jane, 83.
Jane (Hord), 81.
Joan (Hord), 82.
John, 4, 18, 24, SI, 82, 83, 84, 104.
Joyce (Francis), 80.
Joyce (Leveson), 83.
Mary=Brooke, 83.
Peter, 83.
Philippa (White), 83.
Richard, 83.
Robert, 24, 80, 82.
Thomas, 36, 51, 80, 81, 82, 83.
Ursula, 18, 82, 83.
Ursula (Throckmorton), 81, 82.
Walter, 83.
=Port, 81.
Gilbert, Ellen =Adderley, 33.
Girling, Elizabeth=Coyney, 66.
Gledenhurst, Custom =Unwin, 143.
Globard, Eve=Bartram, 43.
John, 43.
Thomas, 43.
Glover, William, 131.
Winifred=Somerford, 131.
Goisfridus, 157.
Goodyer, Anne (Cooke), 135.
Anne=Walkeden, 135.
Ciceley, 135.
Henry, 135.
William, 135.
(Rumbald), 135.
Gower, Barbara (Littleton), 110.
Henry, 110.
Granger, Catherine (Somerford), 131.
Richard, 131.
Grantham, Mary (Dunham), 106.
Thomas, 106.
Gravenor, see Grosvenor.
Greenway, 50, 58.
Anthony, 93.
Ellen=Biddulph, 50.
Ellen=Broughton, 59.
Eve=Broughton, 59.
Richard, 50, 59.
Thomas, 59.
William, 50.
Winifred (Harcourt), 93.
• (Tilney), 92.
=Broughton, 59.
alias Clarke, Edward, 3.
Grendon, John, 24.
Gresley, 26, 85, 85, 86, 87.
Agnes, 86, 87, 159.
Alice (Swinner(o.i), 86, 87.
Anne (Ferrers), 85, 89.
Anne (Stanley), 85, 89.
Benet (Vernon), 85, 89.
Basilia, 86, 87.
Catherine, 17, 85, 90.
Catherine (Aston), 38, 85, 89.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583,
Gresley — continued.
Catherine (Dudley), 85, 89.
Catherine (WaMngham), 85, 90.
Catherine=Winter, 85, 89.
Edward, 85, 89.
Elizabeth, 85, 90.
Elizabeth (Bakepuz), 86, 87.
Elizabeth=Giffard, 81, 82.
Elizabeths Somerset, 85, 89.
Ellen, 87.
Geoffrey, 86, 87.
George, 85, 89, 90.
Grace, 85, 90.
Hastings, 85, 90.
Henry, 85, 87, 90.
James, 85, 89.
Jane, 85, 90.
Joan, 87.
Joan (Stafford), 86, 87-
Joan=Astley, 36.
John, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 152.
Juliana, 86, 87-
Margaret (Gernon), 86, 87.
Margaret (Mulsho), 85, 89.
Margaret (Walsh), 86, 89.
Margery (Clarell), 85, 89.
Margery (Somerville), 86, 87.
Mary, 85, 90.
Nicholas, 86, 89, 156.
Peris (sic), 86.
Peter, 87.
Robert, 85, 86, 87, 89.
Simon, 90.
Steven, 85.
Thomas, 9, 36, 85, 86, 89, 90.
Thomasine (Wastneys), 86, 89,156.
Thoniasine=Wrottesley, 152.
William, 38, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90.
William fitz Nigel, 86, 87.
=Darrell, 89.
=Egerton, 89.
=Montfort, 89.
Greswold, Joan (Stokeley), 104.
William, 104.
Greteham, Anne=Noel, 119.
Thomas, 119.
Greve, =Cooke, 135.
Greville, Anne=Nevillc, 116.
Robert, 116.
Grey, Cassandra=Whor\vood, 148.
Catherine = Blount, 136.
Edward, 148.
Elizabeth (Bassett), 49.
Elizabeth=Zouche, 49.
Henry, Lord, 49.
Jane (Harcourt), 92.
John, 11, 18, 92, 136.
Joyce=Whorwood, 148.
Richard, 49, 108.
(Harcourt), 96.
(Humctt), 99.
Grey — continued.
* =Burley, 108.
Grey de Ruthin, Joan (Astley), 36.
Reginald, 36.
Griffith, 27.
Grin, 120, 146.
Grobbere, 103, 104.
Alice (Ive),105.
Catherine (Bowles), 101.
Catherine (Walsall), 104, 105.
Elizabeth (Rolston), 105.
Robert, 104.
William, 104, 105.
Grosvenor, 90, 90.
Alice (Whitgreave), 91, 147.
Elizabeth (Cotton), 91.
Elizabeth=Newman, 91.
Gawin, 91.
Gertrude, 91.
Henry, 15, 91, 147.
Hester, 91.
Humfrey, 90, 149.
Isabella=Whorwood, 149.
James, 91.
John, 90, 107.
Jonas, 91, 92.
Joseph, 91.
Joyce, 91.
Joyce (Eoulke), 91.
Joyce (Wells alias Clarke), 90.
Richard, 91.
Rose (Clayton), 90, 107.
Sarah, 91.
Solomon, 91.
Thomas, 91.
Venice, 91.
Walter, 11, 91.
(Kinnersley), 91.
Grove, Henry, 5, 20.
Guisnes, Ursula (Harcourt), 93.
Gydney, Margaret=Stamford, 133.
Hakluit, Elizabeth (Trentham), 140.
Thomas, 140.
(Trentham), 140.
Hall, Eve of the (Cokenage), 43.
John of the, 43.
Philip, 11, 15.
Hambury, Agnes= Bowles, 104.
Henry, 104.
Hampton, John, 23.
Hanbury, 103.
Hanmer, Elizabeth (Cholmeley), 62.
Jane=Eowler, 79.
John, 62, 79.
(Leigh), 102,
Hanson, Henry, 28.
Harcourt, 91, 91, 93, 94, 94.
Agnes (Darrell), 91.
Alice, 117.
Alice (Noel), 97, 119.
INDEX.
179
Harcourt — continued.
Anne=Bowyer, 93.
Anne=Knivet, 93.
Anne= Wilson, 96.
Anthony, 95, 96.
Catherine, 96.
Catherine=Herle, 93.
Christopher, 95.
Dorothy, 96.
Dorothy (Eobinson), 92, 125.
Edith (St. Clere), 95.
Edmund, 92.
Edward, 92, 95, 96.
Eleanor (Lewknor), 95, 96.
Elizabeth, 92, 96.
Elizabeth (Leigh), 102.
Elizabeth (Robins, widow), 92.
Elizabeth=Astley, 36, 94.
Elizabeth=Broughton, 61.
Elizabeth=Chamberlaiu, 92.
Elizabeth=Erdeswick, 95.
Elizabeth=Ludford, 95.
Elizabeth=Seystons, 96.
Florence=Cottesmore, 92.
Eulke, 94.
Geoffrey, 94.
George, 102.
Gervase, Earl of, 94.
Grace, 92.
Grace (Fitzherbert), 92.
Henry, 92.
Humfrey, 96.
Isabel=Clark, 96.
Isabel=Moseley, 115.
Isabel =Wrottesley, 153.
Jane, 92.
Jane (Spencer), 92.
Jane=Grey, 92.
Joan, 94.
Joan—Clarke, 93.
John, 92, 95, 96, 120, 153.
Margaret, 93, 96.
Margaret (Barantine), 92.
Margaret (Bracy), 96.
Margaret (Collyns), 96.
Margaret (Gibston), 96.
Mary, 92.
Mary (Aston), 38, 92.
Mary=Collins, 96.
Michael, 92.
Orabel (Leger), 119.
Orabel (Quincy), 97.
Richard, 36, 95, 96, 97, 119.
Robert, 92, 94, 96.
Romicius, Earl of, 94.
Simon, 38, 91, 92, 95.
Thomas, 94, 95, 96, 119, 120, 153.
Ursula=:Guisnes, 93.
Walter, 9, 92, 93, 95, 125.
Wilgefort, 92.
William, 92,94,95,97,115, 119,120.
Harcourt — continued.
Winifred=Greenway, 93.
(Brereton), 95.
(Brodock), 95.
(Cave), 95.
(Clive), 95.
(Darell), 95.
(Egerton), 95, 96.
(Leftwich), 95.
(Scryvin), 96.
(Tilney), 92.
(Windsor), 92.
(York, widow), 91.
=Bohe, 95.
=Broughton, 96.
=Comberford, 95,
=-Grey, 96.
=Lane, 95.
= Ludford, 95.
=Peshall, 95.
=Ruggeley, 96.
=Swinnerton, 95.
=Wrottesley, 95.
Hardulph, 157.
Robert fitz, 88, 156.
Hare, Isabel =Cholmeley, 63.
John, 63.
Harington, James, 118.
= Leigh, 102.
=Noel, 118.
Harman, Dorothy=Wyrley, 154.
Hugh, 154.
John, 5.
, Bishop of Exeter, 154.
Harpesfleld alias Mitton, John, 4.
Harpur, 103.
Anne=Wyrley, 153.
Catherine=Walker, 97.
Dorothy =Hoorde, 105.
Eleanor (Rushall), 105.
Elizabeth=Leigh, 101, 105.
John, 101, 105.
Margaret (Bromley), 105.
Margaret (Cocke), 105.
Robert, 105.
Thomas, 97.
William, 105, 153.
=Egerton, 105.
= Kingston, 105.
Harville, Harry, 24.
Harward, Catherine (Hawkes), 97.
Hassall, Ellen (Cholmeley), 62.
Haman, 62.
Hastange, 20, 21, 93.
John, 20.
Philip, 21.
Richard, 21.
Robert, 20, 21.
Hastings, Anne=Cholmeley, 63.
Dorothy (Port), 82.
George, 82.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Hastings — continued.
— (Port), 81.
Haughton, John, 131.
Margaret (Soruerford), 131.
Margaret=Somerford, 131.
Roger, 131.
Hawkens alias Hawkes, 97.
Hawkes, 97, 97.
Anne=Carter, 97.
Catherine=Harward, 97.
Catlierine=Suow, 97.
Elizabeth (Reynolds), 97.
Hillary, 97.
Joan ( Walker), 97.
John, 97.
Kenelrn, 28.
Mary (Banaster), 97.
Richard, 5, 97.
Thomas, 97.
William, 97.
Hawkesyard, 127.
Hay, 88, 161.
German, 86, 88.
Isabella=Wastneys, 86, 88, 161.
Haydoek, Joan=Leigh, 101.
Haynes, Prances (Stamford), 136.
James, 136.
Haywood, 53.
Anne=Bowyer, 55.
William, 55.
Hazlewood, Elizabeth (Whorwood),
151.
Prances (Dunham), 106.
John, 106, 151.
Helinge, Margaret (Noel), 118.
Richard, 118.
Henshaw, 136.
John, 7, 15.
= Stafford, 136.
= Stamford, 133.
Henstall, 103.
Hercv, Elizabeth (Stanley), 52.
John, 52.
Herle, Catherine (Harcourt), 93.
John, 93.
Heron ville, 153.
John, 71.
Heveningham, 9.
Anne (Pitzherbert), 74.
Dorothy, 17.
Dorothy (Stanley), 52.
Erasmus, 52.
Mary (Moyle), 52.
Walter, 9, 74.
Hewet, 6, 23, 103.
Catherine (Bowles), 104.
Eliz'ibeth=Hexstall, 104.
John, 6, 23, 104.
Margaret=Stockley, 6, 104.
Hexstall, Elizabeth (Hewet), 104.
Thomas, 72, 104.
Higginbotham, John, 7, 15.
Hill, 98, 98.
Constance (Oglethorpe), 98.
Dorothy (Pitzherbert), 98.
Edward, 98.
Elizabeth, 98.
Prancis, 98.
George, 35.
Hugh, 5, 98.
Isabel, 98.
Isabel (Ellis), 98.
Isabella-AVood=Littleton, 109.
Jane (Prancis), 98.
Joan, 98.
Joan (Ashenhurst), 35.
John, 98.
Nicholas, 98.
Richard, 98.
Robert, 109.
Thomas, 98.
Hillary, 22, 115.
Joan=Moseley, 115.
Roger, 22, 115.
Hinton, Mary=Moreton, 114.
(Cholmeley),62.
Hochkis, =Whorwood, 151.
Hogetts, Anne (Wyrley), 154.
John, 154.
Holland, Jane (Arblaster), 34.
William, 34.
Hollyman, Joyce (Whorwood), 151.
William, 151.
Hollyns, Hugh, 7, 15.
Holmes, George, 28.
Holstock, Audley=Broughton, 61
William, 61.
Holt, Constance (Littleton), 110.
Thomas, 110.
Homersley, John, 28.
Thomas, 7, 15.
Honford, Catherine =Mainwaring, 113.
William, 113.
Honton, Ralph, 72.
Hoorde, 82, 139.
Dorothy (Harpur), 105.
Prancisca=Parmer, 105.
Jane=Giffard, 81.
Joau=Giffard, 82.
John, 140.
Joyce (Stapleton), 82.
Thomas, 82, 105.
William, 140.
=Trentham, 140.
, 139.
Hopkins, Elizabeth =Strethay, 137.
Hopton, Elizabeth = Noel, 118.
Elizabeth = Peryente, 118.
Hop was, Anne=Endesore, 68.
John, 68.
Richard, 68.
Sibilla, 68.
INDEX,
181
Hopwas — continued.
William, 68.
Home, Jane (Moreton), 114.
John, 114.
Horton, = Trentkam, 139.
Hotham, John, 76.
Maud =Fitzwilliam, 76.
Houghton, Alice=Fowler, 78,
Alice=Hulcote, 78.
John, 78.
Howard, Elizabeth (Stafford), 132.
Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, 132.
Howe, William, 11, 15.
Howford, =Vise, 144.
Hownhill, 103.
Huddleston, 58.
Anne = Bowes, 53.
Anthony, 53.
John, 53.
Lucy— Brooke, 53, 56, 58.
Margery (Smith), 53, 56, 58.
Eichard, 53, 56, 58.
Sybel (Croftes), 53.
William, 53.
(Waynman), 53.
Hugh, Cecilia=Leigh, 101.
John, 101.
Thomas, 101.
Hulcote, Alice (Houghton), 78.
Humett, 99.
Agnes=Wake, 99.
Engram, 99.
John, 99.
Jordanus, 99.
Juliana (De la Hay), 99.
Hawisia, 99.
Henry, 99.
Eichard, 99.
Thomas, 99.
William, 99.
=Grey, 99.
Humfreston, Cassandra=Brodoke, 81.
Cassandra=Giffard, 80.
Thomas, 80.
Hunkes, =Littleton, 109.
Hunt, lOO, 100.
Amice, 100.
Amice (Cave), 100.
Anne, 100.
Derverguld (Digby), 100.
Dorothy=Lusher, 100.
Elizabeth (Eeynes), 100.
Francis, 100.
Gertrude=Lany, 100.
Gertrude= Sacheverell, 100.
John, 100.
Margaret=Eeynes, 100.
Mary (Lusher), 100.
Eemige, 100.
Eobert, 100.
Susan=Francis, 100.
Hunt — continued.
Thomas, 100.
Huntingdon, William Clinton, Earl of,
76.
Hurst, 139.
Husee, (Trentham), 140.
Hyde, John, 23.
Ilderton, 125.
Joan=Eobinson, 125.
Illary, Eoger, 22.
Ilsley, Humfrey, 28.
Ingham, 93.
Ingleton, Joyce=Tyrrell, 141.
Eobert/lll.
Ireland, David, 140.
Mary=Trentham, 140.
Ive, Alice=Grobbere, 105.
Geoffrey, 105.
Jackson, Anne=Fern, 71.
Eoger, 71.
=Unwin, 143.
James, 30.
Edmund, 5, 30.
Walter, 30.
Jelom, =Whorwood, 149.
Jervis, Cicely (Vise), 145.
John, 9, 14, 145.
Jordan, Eichard, 72.
Jortz, Isabella (Wastneys), 162.
Eobert, 162.
Joscelyn, Anne=Bagot, 40.
Elizabeth=Fitzherbert, 72.
Ealph, 72.
Thomas, 40.
=Fitzherbert, 74.
Kebell, =Bowes, 53.
Kedwelley, Laurence, 126.
Mary=Eudyerd, 126.
Kenryke, 62.
King, Alice (Bolinghull), 68.
Kingsley, Catherine=Macclesfield, 111,
John, 111.
Kingston, Anthony, 105.
(Harpur), 105.
Kinnersley, 7, 27.
Anne=Cotton, 92.
Anne=Strethay, 137.
Anthony, 7.
Dorothy (Pettit), 118, 124.
John, 118, 124.
Thomas, 19, 92, 137.
William, 72.
=Grosvenor, 91.
Kitson, Jane (Paget), 123.
Thomas, 123.
Knightley, 114.
Cassandra=Giffard, 80, 81,
Cassandra=Langtree, 81,
182
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Knightley — continued.
Isabella=Moreton, 114.
John, 81.
Robert, 114.
Knipersley, 53.
Catherine=Bowyer, 54.
Ellen ( Venables), 54.
Robert, 50, 54.
Knippe, Edward, 137.
Jane (Stamford), 137.
Knivet, Anne (Harcourt), 93.
Catherine=Carey, 123.
Catherine=Paget, 123.
Henry, 123.
John, 93.
Kniveton, 40.
Anne (Bagot), 40.
Einnia=Bagot, 40.
John, 40.
Robert, 40.
(Bagot), 40.
Knottesford, Elizabeth=Rugeley, 128.
John, 128.
Lane, 4.
Catherine (Trentham), 140.
Edward, 80.
Margaret (Eowler), 80.
Thomas, 4, 18, 140.
(Harcourt), 95.
Langham, Joyce=Everard, 69.
Langley, Elizabeth=Leigh, 101.
Langsdon, Stephen, 16.
Langton, Eleanor=Cholrneley, 63.
Thomas, 63.
Langtree, Cassandra (Knightley), 81.
John, 81.
Lany, Gertrude (Hunt), 100.
Thomas, 100.
Latham, 56, 57.
Latimer, George Nevill, Lord, 116.
Richard Neville, Lord, 116.
Latus, Rose (Crompton), 67.
Lawton, Anne=Bartram, 43.
James, 43.
John, 155.
Margery=Yardley, 155.
Warburghe=Bartram, 43.
Laynham, Catherine=Arblaster, 34.
Thomas, 34.
La Zouche, 93.
Lea or Lee.
Anne (Paget), 123.
Edward, 28.
Elizabeth=Aston, 37.
Ellen=Stanley, 52.
Erancis, 28.
Henry, 123.
Hugh, 153.
Humfrey, 67.
James, 52.
Lea or Lee — continued.
Joan==Dickens, 67.
Judith (Wyrley), 154.
Margery=Fowler, 78.
Mary, 123.
Mary=Fowler, 78.
Mary=Tyrrell, 142.
Mary=Wrottesley, 153.
Reginald, 37.
Robert, 28.
William, 154.
Leeke, Catherine=Eoljambe, 77.
John, 77.
Leftwich, =Harcourt, 95.
Leger, Orabel=Harcourt, 119.
Leicester, Anne=Mainwaring, 113.
Ralph, 113.
Leigh, 5, lOl, 102, 103, 103.
Alice (Alcock), 101.
Alice (Barker), 101.
Anne, 102.
Anne (Farmer), 102.
Catherine, 102.
Catherine (Dunham), 102, 106.
Catherine (Spencer), 102.
Cecilia (Hugh), 101.
Dorothy, 102.
Dulcia= Stanley, 52.
Edward, 5, 102, 106.
Elizabeth, 101, 102.
Elizabeth (Biddulph), 51.
Elizabeth (Harpur), 101, 105.
Elizabeth (Langley), 101.
Elizabeth=Bartram, 43.
Elizabeth=Harcourt, 102.
Frances, 102.
Godfrey, 102.
Helena, 101.
Henry, 102, 106.
Howard, 102.
Humfrey, 51.
Joan (Haydock), 101.
John, 43, 101, 102.
Lewis, 102.
Margaret (Danyers), 101.
Mary, 102.
Mary (Sparks), 101.
Matilda (Norley), 101.
Maud, 102.
Peter, 101.
Ralph, 101.
Richard, 101, 102.
Robert, 101.
Roger, 101.
Rowland, 102.
Rowland, Bishop of Coventry and
Lichfield, 79.
Sibyl=Fowler, 79.
Thomas, 101, 102.
William, 101, 102, 105.
(Berkeley), 102.
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183
Leigh — continued.
(Harington), 102.
(Lowe), 102.
=Hanmer, 102.
=Paston, 101.
Leighton, (Trentham), 140.
Lester, Margery=Fowler, 78.
Mary=Fowler, 78.
L'Estrange, Guy, 97.
Margaret=Noel, 97.
Leuknell, Eleanor=Harcourt, 95.
Leveson, 25, 106, 106.
Agnes (Clement), 106.
Anne, 108.
Anne (Wrottesley), 107.
Anne=Stamford, 108, 133.
Christian, 107.
Edward, 108.
Eleanor, 108.
Elizabeth, 108.
Elizabeth (Arden), 107.
Elizabeth (Eoulke), 107.
Elizabeth=Aston, 39.
Elizabeth=Bowyer, 54.
Elizabeth="\Yoodshaw, 107.
Eulke, 107.
Geoffrey, 106.
Helena (Clayton), 107.
Isabel, 107.
James, 39, 83, 106.
Jane (Bradbury), 106.
Jane (Poultney), 107.
Joan, 107.
John, 106, 107, 108, 133.
Joyce, 107, 108.
Joyce (Ashfield), 108.
Joyce (Birmingham), 107.
Joyce=Giffard, 83.
Juliana, 107.
Margaret, 107, 108.
Margaret=Bidley, 108.
Margery (Fitzclement), 106.
Martha, 108.
Mary, 107.
Mary (Brooke), 108.
Michael, 108.
Nicholas, 106.
Eichard, 25, 39, 106, 107, 108.
Thomas, 11, 18, 107, 108.
Walter, 107, 108.
William, 107.
(Bretayne), 107.
(Bushbury), 107.
, 18.
Lewknor, Eleanor=Harcourt, 95, 96.
Linaker, Joan=Bagshaw, 41.
Eobert, 41.
Lisle, 116.
Lister, Edith (Eitzherbert), 75.
Littleton, 4, 26, 108.
Alice (Cokayne), 110.
Littleton — cont inued.
Alice (Winnesbury), 109.
Anne, 109.
Anne (Botreux), 109.
Anthony, 109.
Barbara=Folyot, 110.
Barbara=Gower, 110.
Bridget, 109.
Bridget (Pakington), 109.
Constance=Foljambe, 110.
Constance=Holt, 110.
Edward, 4, 109, 110, 114.
Eleanor=Bassett, 45.
Eleanor=Cotes, 45.
Elizabeth, 109.
Elizabeth (Coningsby), 109.
Elizabeth (Stanley), 109.
Elizabeth (Talbot), 109.
Ellen, 109.
Ellen (Swinnerton), 109.
Ellen (Welsh), 38, 108.
Francis, 109.
George, 109.
Gilbert, 109.
Grace, 110.
Isabella- Wood (Hill), 109.
James, 110.
Jane, 110.
Joan alias Ellen=Aston, 38.
Joan=Aston, 109.
John, 38, 109.
Katherine, 109.
Lucy, 109.
Margaret, 109, 110.
Margaret (Devereux), 110.
Margaret=Newport, 109.
Margery, 109.
Mary, 110.
Mary (Whittington), 38, 108.
Matilda, 109.
Eichard, 109, 110.
Eoger, 109.
Thomas, 38, 108, 109, 110, 114.
William, 38, 108.
(Hunkes), 109.
(Moreton), 114.
(Quartermain), 108.
— — =Westcote, 108.
Lloyd, Eleanor (Smith), 130.
Eichard, 130.
Longford, Dorothy (Fitzherbert), 76.
I)orothy=Fitzherbert, 73, 75.
Elizabeth (Okeover), 122.
Nicholas, 76, 122.
Ealph, 73, 75, 76.
Longsdon, Stephen, 16.
Lovate, John, 28.
Lowe, Edmund, 25.
Humfrey, 28.
=Leigh, 102.
Lownes, Elizabeth (Ashenhurst), 35.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Lownes — continued.
Thomas, 35.
Lucy, Anne= Aston, 39.
'Thomas, 39.
Ludford, Elizabeth (Harcourt), 95.
(Harcourt), 95.
Ludlow, Isabel=Fitzherbert, 72.
Lusher, Dorothy (Hunt), 100.
Mary=Hunt, 100.
Nicholas, 100.
Luttlehay, Robert, 160.
Lynne, Elizabeth=Plautney, 125.
William, 125.
Lyseux, HO.
Beatrix, 110.
Elizabeth, 110.
Hugh, 110.
Isabel, 110.
James, 110.
John, 110.
=Bassett, 48, 110.
Macclesfield, 111, 111.
Alice, 111.
Andrew, 111.
Catherine, 111.
Catherine (Fowke), 111.
Catherine (Kingsley), 111.
Edward, 111.
Elizabeth, 111.
Elizabeth=Sutton, 111.
Ellen, 111.
Erancis, 111, 112.
Helena (Fitton), 111.
Humfrey, 111.
John, 111, 112.
Juliana (Salter), 111.
Margaret, 111.
Margaret (Erdeswick), 111.
Margery, 111.
Nicholas, 111, 112.
Peter, 111.
Ralph, 17, 111, 112.
Rawlin, 112.
Richard, 111, 112.
Simon, 111.
Susanna, 111.
Ursula (Roos), 111.
William, 9, 111, 112.
(Watton), 111.
Madder, William, 5.
Madeley, Thomas, 7, 14.
Madock, Humfrey, 28.
Mainwaring, 30, 113, 113.
Alice, 113.
Alice (Boghey), 113.
Anne, 113.
Anne (Cholmeley), 62.
Anne (Leicester), 113.
Annc=Roos, 113.
Catherine (Honford), 113.
Mainwaring — continued.
Charles, 138.
Edmond, 113.
Edward, 9, 18, 30, 113.
Elizabeth, 113.
Isabel=Thickness, 138.
Jane (Cradock), 113.
John, 113.
Mary, 113.
Nicholas, 113.
Peres, 113.
Philip, 113.
Randall, 62.
Randolph, 113.
Thomas, 113.
William, 113.
Malines, 93.
Malory, 39.
Manning, 26.
Manyfold, Arthur, 35.
Grace (Ashenhurst), 35.
John, 35.
Marbury, 155.
=Yardley, 156.
Marmion, Philip, 160.
Philippa, 99.
Robert, 99.
Marnham, John, 72.
Marshall, 72, 74, 139, 145, 146.
Catherine=.Trentham, 140.
Elizabeth=Fitzherbert, 73, 75.
John, 73, 140, 159, 160.
Maud (Skrimshire), 129.
William, 160.
Martyn, 9S.
=Arblaster, 34.
Mawissin, Robert, 24.
Mawreward, Thomas, 24.
Meringe, Margery=Bassett, 49.
William, 49.
Meuland, Roger, Bishop of Lichfield,
59.
=Napton, 59.
Meverell, 7.
Anne (Dunham), 106.
Dorothy=Coyney, 65.
Elizabeth=Bassett, 45, 46.
Elizabeth=Cokayne, 45, 46.
George, 106.
Margaret (Trentham), 140.
Sampson, 7, 19, 140.
Thomas, 45, 46, 65.
Meyncll, 44, 45.
Alice=Aston, 44.
Anno (Yardley), 155.
Cecilia,, 44.
Giles, 44.
Hugh, 44, 46.
Joan (Ward), 44.
Joan=Clinton, 44.
Marg iret=Dethick, 44.
INDEX.
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Meynell — continued.
Richard, 44.
Robert, 155.
Thomasin=Dethick, 44, 46.
Tkomasin=Erdeswick, 44.
Michel, Elizabeth=Cholrneley, 63.
Elizabeth=Thickness, 139.
Middlemore, Elizabeth (Noel), 118.
Simon, 118.
Middleton, (Treutham), 140.
Milburne, 136.
Eleanor=Moore, 136.
Simon, 136.
Miller, Jo3'ce=Ashenhurst, 35.
alias Feme, John, 35.
Milles, Anne (Vise), 145.
Richard, 4, 17.
Thomas, 145.
Milward, Henrv, 33.
Phillis=Adderley, 33.
Phillis=Ferne, 70.
Robert, 70.
Minours, 27, 30.
Edward, 140.
Erancis, 7.
Humfrey, 6.
John, 127.
Joyce (Trentham), 140.
Ralph, 7, 30.
Rose=Thirkell, 127.
Thomas, 72.
Mirfield, (Fitzwilliani), 76.
Mitton, Edward, 119.
John, 19.
Mary=Noel, 119.
alias Harpesfield, John, 4.
Mollins, Elizabeth (Thickness), 139.
John, 139.
Montacute, John Neville, Marquis of,
53, 77.
Montague, Edward, 141.
Mary=Tyrrell, 141.
Montfort, 37.
Alice=Noel, 119.
Anne (Fowler), 80.
Francis, 6, 20.
Hugh, 119.
Simon, 89.
William, 7, 15, 80.
(Gresley), 89.
Montgomery, Anne=Bagot, 40.
Dorothy=Giffard, 81, 82.
Ellen=Bassett, 47.
John, 81, 82.
Margaret (Dethick), 46.
Matilda=Clarell, 89.
Nicholas, 40, 47, 89.
Moore, Eleanor (Milburne), 136.
John, 136.
Margaret=Stamford, 136.
=Corbin, 67.
Moreton, 114, 114.
Adam, 4, 114.
Alice (Dickens), 67, 114.
Alice=Dickens, 68, 114.
Alice=Pei*sons, 114.
Catherine=Fowler, 79.
Constance, 68, 114.
Edward, 4, 68, 114.
Elizabeth=Stapleton, 114.
Elizabeth=Yardley, 155.
Isabel (Knightley), 114.
Isabel=Egginton, 68, 114.
James, 114.
Jane=Horne, 114.
John, 114.
Joyce=Rowlev, 114.
Margaret, 68, 114.
Margaret=Fowler, 79.
Margery (Sheppard), 114.
Mary, 68, 114.
Mary (Hinton), 114.
Matthew, 67, 68, 114.
Richard, 114.
Thomas, 114.
William, 155.
(Downe), 114.
=Eittleton, 114.
Morley, Amphelissa=Wastneys, 88.
Morres, William, 28.
Moseley, 115, 115.
Agnes (Bate), 115.
Audrey (Wyrley,, 115.
Avery (Wyrley), 154.
Christian (Costliff), 115.
Cornelius, 115.
Eleanor (Specheley), 115.
Elizabeth, 115.
Elizabeth=Toll, 115.
Felis (Schampion), 115.
Isabel (Harcourt), 115.
Joan (Hillary), 115.
John, 115.
Lucretia (Whitgreave), 115, 147.
Margaret, 115.
Margaret (Blithe), 115.
Robert, 11, 115, 147, 154.
Roger, 115.
William, 115, 147.
Moton, Alice (Bassett), 49.
Robert, 49.
Thomas, 49.
Mowlisley, see Moseley.
Moyle, Isabel (Stanley), 52.
Mary=Heveningham, 52.
Walter, 52.
Mulsho, John, 85.
Margaret=Gresley, 85, 89.
Mundeford, Bridget= Fowler, 79.
Osbert, 79.
Muschamp, 129.
Mylner, John, 126.
P
186
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Mylner — con t in u ed.
Margery=Rudyerd, 126.
Napton, 58, 59.
Adam, 59.
Henry, 58, 59.
Julian=Broughton, 59.
Roger, 58, 59.
(Charlton), 59.
(Mewland), 59.
=Broughton, 59.
Narborough, 25.
Nedeham, 9.
Elizabeth=Ferne, 71.
Prances (Aston), 38.
John, 9, 71.
Margery=Coyney, 66.
Robert, 38, 66.
Neelson, ==Rudyerd, 126.
Nelson, Mary=Whitgreave, 148.
Nevill, 116, 116.
Alan, 157.
Alice (Rydel), 116.
Anne (Greville), 116.
Elizabeth (Beauchamp), 116.
Fulke, 116.
Francis, 116.
George, Lord Abergavenny, 132.
George, Lord Latimer, 116.
Henry, 116.
Isabei=Smith, 53.
Jane (Bourchier), 116.
John, 116.
John, Marquis of Montacute, 53, 77.
Lucy=Browne, 77.
Lucy=Fitzwilliam; 77.
Mary (Stafford), 132.
Ralph, Earl of Westmorland, 116.
Richard, Lord Latimer, 116.
Thomas, 116.
Newman, Elizabeth (Grosvenor), 91.
Thomas, 116.
Newport, 23.
Edward, 109.
Margaret (Littleton), 109.
William, 23.
Newton, Nazaretha=Paget, 123.
Nazaretha=Southwell, 123.
Nigel de Gresley, 87.
William fit'z, 86.
Noel, 9, 93, 117.
Alice (Montfort), 119.
Alice (Wyverston), 117.
Alice=Harcourt, 97, 119.
Andrew, 118.
Anne, 119.
Anne (Crompton), 118.
Anne (Fowler), 118.
Anne (Greteham), 119.
Anthony, 118.
Arthur,' 117, 119.
Bridget, 118.
Noel — continued.
Charles-Perrott, 118.
Cicely, 117.
Cicely=Cross, 118.
Dorothy (Pettit), 118, 124,
Dorothy=Whitgreave, 118, 147.
Edward, 118, 119.
Elizabeth (Hopton), 118.
Elizabeth=Ponte, 118.
Elizabeth=Middlemore, 118.
Elizabeth=Silvester, 119.
Ellen, 119.
George, 118.
Grace, 119.
Henry, 118, 119.
Humfrey, 118.
Isabel=Chitwode, 117.
James, 6, 117, 119.
Jane (Draycott), 117.
Jane (Sonde), 117.
Joan=Dufton, 119.
John, 117,118, 119, 120.
Joyce-=Pettit, 118, 124.
Judith, 118.
Leonard, 118.
Lucy, 118.
Margaret (L'Estrange), 97.
Margaret (Strange), 119.
Margaret=Helinge, 118.
Martyn, 28.
Mary (Aspland), 117.
Mary (Mitton), 119.
Maud (Brereton), 117.
Nicholas, 119.
Philip, 9, 117, 118, 119.
Prudence=Whitmore, 119.
Richard, 117, 119.
Robert, 117, 118, 119, 120, 124,
147.
Theodosia, 118.
Thomas, 97, 117, 118, 119, 124.
Walter, 118.
William, 117, 118.
(Flower, widow), 118.
(Harington), 118.
(Poole), 117.
=Stamford, 136.
Norley, Matilda=Leigh, 101.
Norreys, Jane=Rudyerd, 126.
William, 126.
North, =Adderley, 33.
Norton, Edward, 148.
Elizabeth=Whitgreave, 148.
Offcley, Anne=Unwin, 143.
John, 143.
Oglethorpe, Constance=Hill, 98.
Okeovcr, 27, 120, 120, 146.
A^nes (Bradborne), 121.
Catherine, 122.
Catherine (Aston), 121.
INDEX.
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Okeover — continued.
Catherine (Dunham), 121.
Catherine=Ashenliurst, 35.
Dorothy= Welles, 122, 146.
Eleanor=Taylour, 122.
Elizabeth, 122.
Elizabeth (Babington), 121.
Elizabeth=Longford, 122.
Elizabeth=Philiips, 122.
Ellen=Endesore, 69.
Paith, 122.
Geoffrey, 120.
Hugh, 120, 121.
Humfrey, 38, 121.
Isabel, 121.
Isabel (Aston), 38.
Jane=Cokayne, 121.
John, 121.
Margaret (Dethick), 121.
Matilda, 120.
Matilda (Bassett), 45, 121.
Nicholas, 121.
Philip, 7, 19, 35, 71, 121.
Ealph, 45, 69, 72, 120, 121, 122, 146.
Richard, 120.
Robert, 120.
Roger, 121.
Rowland, 122.
Sarah, 122.
Sibilla (White), 122.
Susanna=Pranknell, 122.
Thomas, 121.
William, 121.
Orchard, John, 10, 14.
Orinus, 120.
Ralph fitz, 120.
Osbaldeston, Anne=Thickness, 139.
Elizabeth=Rudyerd, 126.
John, 126, 127.
Temperance=Rudyerd, 127.
Osborne, Mrs., 79.
Oteley, Joan=Astlev, 36.
John, 36.
Richard, 28.
(Blount), 36.
Overton, 153.
Alice, 50.
Cicely=Biddulph, 50.
Ellen, 50.
Margaret, 50.
Thomas, 50.
Werburga, 50.
William, Bishop of Lichfield, 10.
Oxford, John, Earl of, 108.
Padley, 72.
Paget, 26, 122, 122.
Anne, Lady, 122.
Anne (Preston), 122.
Anne=Lee, 123.
Anne=Smith, 122.
Paget — continued.
Catherine (Knivet), 123.
Charles, 123.
Dorothy =WTilloughby, 123.
Edward, 123.
Eleanor=Clerk, 123.
Eleanor=Palmer, 123.
Elizabeth, 123.
Ethelreda=Allen, 123.
Griselda=Rivett, 123.
Henry, Lord, 123.
Jane^Kitson, 123.
John, 122.
Nazaretha (Newton), 123.
Robert, 122.
Thomas, Lord, 123.
William, 122, 123.
Pakenham, Agnes=Pitzwilliam, 77.
Agnes=Sydney, 77.
Pakington, Bridget=Littleton, 109.
John, 109.
Palmer, Alice=Stamford, 133.
Christopher, 134.
Eleanor (Paget), 1 23.
Eleanor=Stamford, 134.
Jerome, 123.
John, 133.
Mary, 123.
Panckeney, Henry, 18.
Parker, Thomas, 7, 15.
Paston, (Leigh), 101.
Pateson, Richard, 29.
Pegge, Jane=Rugele}r, 128.
Pembridge, Pulk, 22.
Percy, Eleanor=Stafford, 132.
Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 132.
Perkins, Roger, 28.
Perrott, Anne (Rudyerd), 127.
Anne=Persehouse, 127.
William, 127.
Persall, Adam, 115.
Catherine=Costliffe, 115.
Thomas, 17.
Persehouse, Anne (Rudyerd), 127.
John, 6, 15, 127.
Persons, Alice (Moreton), 114.
George, lit.
Perton, John, 23, 71.
Peryente, Elizabeth (Hopton), 118.
John, 118.
Peshall, 10.
John, 95.
Robert, 10.
Thomas, 10.
(Harcourt), 95.
Petit, 93, 124, 124.
Anne, 124.
Andrew, 124.
Cassandra, 124.
Dorothy, 124.
Dorothy=Kinner.sley, 118, 124.
188
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Petit — continued.
Dorothv=Noel, 118, 124.
Henry, 10, 14, 118, 124.
Jane, 124.
John, 124.
Joyce (Noel), 118, 124.
Richard, 124.
Simon, 124.
Thomas, 10, 14, 118, 124.
"Walter, 124.
William, 124.
(Allen), 124.
Petre, William, 82.
=Talhot, 82.
Peverell, Elizabeth (Adderley), 33.
William, 33.
Peyto, Eleanor (Aston), 39.
Goodith=Wyrley, 154.
Hmnfrey, 154.
Phillips, Ambrose, 154.
Dennis=Cholineley, 63.
Edward, 122.
Elizabeth (Okeover), 122.
Grace (Wyrley), 154.
William, 28.
Pickman, Margaret=Smith, 130.
Ralph, 130.
Picto, Francis, 4, 16.
Pidcock, Anne, 134.
Dorothy (Stamford), 134.
Prances, 134.
Robert, 134.
Vincent, 134.
Pigott, Eleanor=Somerford, 131.
Robert, 131.
Pilkington, Matilda=Arderne, 57.
Pilletonhalle, John, 72.
Piot, Alderman, 138.
Pipe, 21, 24.
James, 24, 24.
Robert, 24.
Thomas, 21.
Pixstock, =Cholmeley, 62.
Plantney, 125, 125.
Alexander, 125.
Daniel, 125.
Edward, 125.
Elizabeth, 125.
Elizabeth (Lynne), 125.
Elizabeth (Rogers), 125.
Henry, 11, 125.
Joan (Creswell), 125.
John, 125.
Margaret, 125.
Samuel, 125.
Thomas, 125.
Poole, John, 127, 129.
Margaret, Countess of Salisbury,132.
Margaret=Skrimshire, 129.
Richard, 132.
Ursula=Stafford. 132.
Poole — continued.
=Noel, 117.
=Thirkell, 127.
Popham, 93.
Port, Dorothy (Fitzherbert), 76.
Dorothy=Hastings, 82.
Elizabeth (Giffard), 82.
Elizabeth=Gerard, 82.
Joan (Fitzherbert), 73, 74.
John, 7, 15, 73, 74, 81, 82.
Margaret=Stanhope, 82.
(Giffard), 81.
=Gerarde, 81.
=Hastings, 81.
Porter, Joyce (Biddulph), 51.
Ralph, 51.
Powell, =Cholmeley, 63.
Powtrell, Thomas, 49.
(Bassett), 49.
Praers, 103, 113.
Preston, 122.
Anne=Paget, 122.
Priestland, Catherine (Cholmeley), 62.
Richard, 62.
Pulteney, Anne (Shirley), 38.
Francis, 38.
Jane=Leveson, 107.
Richard, 107.
Thomas, 38, 107.
Purferey, Margery (Fitzherbert), 75.
Nicholas, 75.
(Windsor), 92.
Pyott, Thomas, 7, 15.
Quatremain, =Littleton, 108.
Quilet, Alan, 68.
Anne (Comberford), 68.
Quincy, Orabell=Harcourt, 97.
Robert, 97.
Ralph fitz Orme, 120.
Rayne, Ellen (Bowyer), 54.
Randulph, 54.
Rayner, Margaret (Ashenhurst), 35.
Nicholas, 35.
Rawson, Catherine=Crompton, 66.
Catherine=Richardson, 66, 67.
Bead, 03.
Repington, Edward, 134.
Frances (Stamford), 134.
Humfrey, 134.
John, 134.
Thomas, 134.
Reresby, Ralph, 76.
Thomas, 76.
(Fitzwilliam), 76.
Restwood, Catherine=Fitzherbert, 73.
Reynes, Andrew, 100.
Elizabeth=Hunt, 100.
Margaret (Hunt), 100.
Robert, 100.
INDEX.
189
Reynold, =Broughton, 59.
Reynolds, Elizabeth=Hawkes, 97.
Richard, 97.
Richardson, Catherine (Rawson), 66, 67.
Catherine=Crompton, 67.
Oliver, 67.
Rickthorn, Joan=Whorwood, 151.
Thomas, 11.
William, 151.
Ridgley, Thomas, 6.
=Thickness, 138.
Ridley, Margaret (Leveson), 108.
Richard, 108.
Ridware, 72.
Isabel=Bassett, 45.
Isabel=Bradborne, 45.
Richard, 45.
Rivett, Anne, 123.
Griselda (Paget), 123.
Robert fitz Hardulf, 88, 156.
Robert fitz Walter, 156, 157.
Robins, Elizabeth, widow=Harconrt,
92.
Robinson, 125.
Dorothy=Harcourt, 92, 125.
George, 125.
Grace (Fitzherbert), 75, 92, 125.
Joan (Ilderton), 125.
John, 125.
Nicholas, 125.
Thomas, 20, 125.
William, 92, 125.
Robsant, Dorothy (Wyrley), 154.
Robert, 154.
Rockley, 141.
Rogers, Elizabeth=Plantney, 125.
Hugh, 140.
(Trentham), 140.
Rolston, Elizabeth=Grubbere, 105.
John, 105.
William, 6.
Roos, 30.
Anne (Mainwaring), 113.
Francis, 17, 60, 111, 112.
Mary=Broughton, 60.
Peter, 10, 30.
Thomas, 113.
Ursula, 112.
Ursula=Macclesfield, 111.
Rothewall, Dorothy (Ashenhurst), 35.
John, 35.
Rothewood, Anthony, 71.
Elizabeth (Feme), 71.
Rowley, Jane (Rugeley), 128.
Joyce (Moreton), 114.
Thomas, 10, 14, 114, 128.
Roxeter, Anne (Somerford), 131.
Edward, 131.
Rudyerd, 126, 126.
Alice (Brereton), 126.
Alice=Camden, 127.
Rudyerd — continued.
Ambrosia, 126.
Anne=Perrott, 127.
Anne=Persehouse, 127.
Benjamin, 126.
Charles, 127.
Edmond, 127.
Elizabeth, 126.
Elizabeth (Osbaldeston), 126.
Hugh, 126.
James, 126.
Jane (Norreys), 126.
John, 126, 127.
Laurence, 127.
Margery (Mylner), 126.
Mary (Biddulph), 51, 126.
Mary (Kedwelley), 126.
Muriel=Smart, 126.
Ralph, 126.
Randolph, 127.
Richard, 126, 127.
Temperance (Osbaldeston), 127.
Thomas, 7, 51, 126.
William, 127, 128.
(Neelson), 126.
(Savage), 126.
=Wardes worth, 126.
alias Tetesworth, 7, 126.
Rugeley, 24, 127, 127.
Alice (Claxson), 127.
Anne, 128.
Eleanor=Broughton, 61.
Elizabeth (Knottesford), 128.
Elizabeth=Bagshaw, 41.
Ellen, 128.
Ellen (Thirkell), 128.
Francis, 128.
George, 128.
Henry, 128.
Humfrey, 41, 61.
James, 128.
Jane, 128.
Jane (Pegge), 128.
Jane=Rowley, 128.
Margaret, 128.
Margery (Gierke), 128.
Nicholas, 24.
Penelope, 128.
Ralph, 128.
Rebecca (Rugeley), 128.
Rebecca=Rugeley, 128.
Richard, 72, 128.
Robert, 127.
Rowland, 19, 128.
Thirkell, 128.
Thomas, 128.
William, 6, 127, 128.
(Harcourt), 96.
Rumbald, =Goodyer, 135.
Rushall, 103, 103.
Alice=Bowles, 104.
190
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Rushall — continued.
Eleanor=Harpur, 105.
James, 105.
Nigel, 103.
Osbert, 103.
Richard, 103, 104.
"William, 10-4, 105.
Rycote, Joan=Englefield, 78.
Rydell, Alice=Neville, 116.
Huinfrey, 116.
Sacheverell, Catherine (Fitzherbert), 76.
Gertrude (Hunt), 100.
Henry, 76, 100.
John, 76.
St. Andrew, John, 146.
Katheriue (Welles), 146.
St. Clere, 93.
Edith=Harcourt, 95.
Thomas, 95.
St. Landa, Agatha (Wastneys), 158.
Salisbury, Margaret, Countess of, 132.
Ursula, daug.=Stafford, 132.
Salt, 6, 27.
Anne (Strongman), 6.
Elizabeth, 6.
Elizabeth (Stockley), 6, 104.
Richard, 6, 104.
Robert, 6.
Thomas, 6.
Salter, John, 111, 112.
Juliana, 112.
J uliana= Macclesfield, 111.
Salway, 50.
Cicely=Coningsby, 51.
Humfrey, 51.
John, 51.
Joyce=Ashby, 51.
Joyce=Wolseley, 51.
Margaret=Biddulph, 51.
Margery (Erdeswike), 51.
(Strelley), 51.
Sandford, Hugh, 59.
Margaret=Broughton, 59.
Sanson, Edward, 151.
Margery (Whorwood), 151.
Saunders, Mary=JBagot, 40.
William, 40.
Savage, Anne (Stanley), 52.
Christopher, 52.
Helen=Endesore, 69.
Roger, 126.
(Stanley), 52.
=Rudyerd, 126.
Say, William, 99.
Sciiampion, 115.
Felis=Moseley, 115.
Robert, 115.
William, 115.
Scroope, Elizabeth=Claroll, 76.
Henry, 76.
Scryvin, =Harcourt, 96.
Sergeant, Alice (Bowyer), 54.
Richard, 54.
Seystons, Anthony, 96.
Elizabeth (Harcourt), 96.
Shareshill, 93.
William, 71.
Sheffield, Anne=Ferne, 71.
Robert, 71.
Sheldon, 25, 153.
Catherine=Trentham, 141.
Claire= Wyrley, 154.
John, 154.
Mary=Fowler, 80.
Ralph, 80, 141.
Sheppard, Margery=Moreton, 114.
Shepy, Agnes (Comberford), 68.
John, 68.
Sherrard, Anne (Ashenhurst), 35.
Thomas, 35.
Shirewood, James, 28.
Shirley, Anne, 38.
Dorothy (Giffard), 81, 82.
Elizabeth (Welshe), 38.
Francis, 48, 81, 82.
George, 48.
Joan (Bassett), 48.
John, 48.
Ralph, 38, 48.
Shrewsbury, George, Earl of, 12.
Silvester, Elizabeth (Noel), 119.
John, 99.
Simely, Jordan, 99.
William, 99.
Skerne, Frances=Giffard, 82.
Skevington, John, 6, 20, 29.
Skipwith, John, 76.
(Fitzwilliam), 76.
Skrimshire, 129, 129.
Alice (Starkey), 129.
Dorothy, 129.
Dorothy (Talbot), 129.
Elizabeth, 129.
Elizabeth (Collyar), 129.
Elizabeth (Wyrley), 129, 154.
Elizabeth=Collyar, 64.
James, 4, 19, 64, 129.
John, 66, 129.
Lucy, 129.
Margaret (Poole), 129.
Martha (Fowler), 80.
Maud=Marshall, 129.
Richard, 129.
Thomas, 4, 10, 17, 19, 80, 129, 154.
William, 129.
Winifred=Coyney, 66.
(Swineshed), 129.
(Talbot), 129.
Slaide, Elizabeth=Cholmelev, 63.
Smart, John, 126.
Muriel (Rudyerd), 126.
INDEX.
191
Smith, 57, 130, 130.
Anne (Giffard), 83.
Anne (Paget), 122.
Anne (Staunton), 53, 58.
Anne=Colclough, 130.
Edward, 130.
Eleanor (Whorwood), 151.
Eleanor=rLloyd, 130.
Ellen (Thickness), 139.
George, 83.
Isabel (Neville), 53.
Joan (Adderley), 33.
John, 130, 151.
Margaret (Dodd), 130.
Margaret (Picknian), 130.
Margery (Staunton), 56.
Margery=Huddleston, 53, 56, 58.
Ralph, 1 30.
Richard, 130.
Robert, 33.
William, 53, 56, 58, 130.
(Eitzherbert), 74.
=Wright, 122.
alias Torbock, Ralph, 10.
Sneyd, 10, 27.
George, 10.
Jane=Trentham, 141.
Ralph, 10, 18, 29.
"William, 141.
, 18.
Snow, Catherine (Hawkes), 97.
Nicholas, 97.
Somerford, 131, 131.
Anne=Roxeter, 131.
Catherine=Granger, 131.
Eleanor (Pigott), 131.
Elizabeth, 131.
Erancis, 131.
Geoffrey, 4, 18, 131.
Henry, 72.
Humfrey, 131.
Jane (Fowke), 131.
John, 131.
Margaret (Haughton), 131.
Margaret=Haughton, 131.
Mary, 131.
Richard, 131.
Robert, 131.
Susan, 131.
Thomas, 131.
Ursula, 131.
William, 131.
Winifred (Glover), 131.
Somersall, 74.
Somerset, Charles, 85, 89.
Elizabeth=Gresley, 85, 89.
Somerville, 87.
Margery=Gresley, 86, 87.
Matilda, 86, 87.
Somery, Maud=Erdington, 22.
Sonde, Jane=Noel, 117.
Souche, see Zouche.
Southampton, William Eitzwilliam, Earl
of, 77.
Southwell, Nazaretha (Newton), 123.
Thomas, 123.
Sparks, Mary=Leigh, 101.
Specheley, Eleanor=Moseley, 115.
Robert, 115.
Spencer, Catherine=Leigh, 102.
Elizabeth=Unwin, 143.
Jane= Bruges, 92.
Jtane=Harcourt, 92.
John, 39, 92, 102.
Mary=Aston, 39.
Richard, 143.
Spicer, Elizabeth=Corbett, 65.
Spilman, 25, 26.
Henry, 25.
Sprott, Edward, 6, 15, 20, 137.
=Salt, 6.
=Stamford, 137.
Spurstow, John, 65.
Margery=Coyney, 65.
Stafford, 21, 22, 26, 27, 57, 87, 132, 132.
Alice (Corbett), 132.
Dorothy, 132.
Dorothy (Stafford), 132.
Dorothy=Stafford, 132.
Earl of, 21, 22.
Edmund, 132.
Edward, 132.
Edward, Duke of Buckingham, 132.
Edward, Lord, 4, 132.
Eleanor (Percy), 132.
Elizabeth=Howard, 132.
Henry, Earl of, 132.
Humfrey, 22.
Joan=Gresley, 86, 87.
Katherine=Ralph, Earl of West-
morland, 132.
Lord, 26.
Mary, 132.
Mary (Stanley), 132.
Mary=Neville, 132.
Maud (Camville), 51, 57.
Maud=Arderne, 51, 57.
Nicholas, 22, 132.
Ralph, 132.
Richard, 21, 51, 57.
Robert, 47, 86, 87, 157, 158.
Robert, Lord, 132.
Ursula, 132.
Ursula (dau. of Margaret, Countess
of Salisbury), 132.
William, 132.
alias Toni, Robert, 156.
Stafford (Bagot), 27.
Stamford, 133, 133, 135, 135.
Agatha, 133.
Alice, 134.
Alice (Palmer), 133.
192
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Stamford — continued .
Anne, 133.
Anne (Leveson), 108, 133.
Anne=Witkers, 134.
Catherine, 133.
Catherine=Barnbury, 134.
Catherine=Blount, 136.
Charles, 133.
Dorothy=Pidcock, 134.
Edward, 133, 137.
Eleanor (Palmer), 134.
Elizabeth, 137.
Elizabeth (Comberford), 137.
Elizabeth=Atcombe, 134.
Prances, 133.
Prances=Haynes, 136.
Prances=Repington, 134.
Henry, 134.
Jane (Abington), 137.
Jane=Knippe, 137.
Joan=Cooke, 134.
John, 133, 134, 136.
Joyce=Babington, 136.
Margaret, 133, 134.
Margaret (Gydney), 133.
Margaret (Moore), 136.
Margaret=Astley, 134.
Margery (Blount), 136.
Margery (Pisher), 133.
Margery=Whitgreave, 136, 147.
Mary, 133.
Ralph, 134.
Robert, 6, 20, 108, 133, 136.
Roger, 136.
Thomas, 133, 134, 136, 137, 147.
Ursula, 137.
William, 6, 133, 134, 136, 137.
Winifred, 134.
■ (Henshaw), 133, 136.
(Noel), 136.
(Sprott), 137.
Standley, Thomas, 62.
Ursula (Cholmeley), 62.
Stanhope, Dorothy (Trentham), 141.
John, 141.
Margaret (Port), 82.
Thomas, 82.
Stanlawe, Ralph, 21.
Stanley, 56, 57.
Alice, 52.
Alice=Swinnerton, 52.
Anne, 52.
Anne=Gresley, 85, 89.
Anne=Savage, 52.
Catherine, 52.
Dorothy=IIeveningham, 52.
Dulcia (Leigh), 52.
Edward, Earl of Derby, 132.
Elizabeth, 52.
Elizabeth=Hercy, 52.
Elizabeth=Littleton, 109.
Stanley — continued.
Ellen (Lee), 52.
Humfrey, 52.
Isabel, 52.
Isabel (Vernon), 52.
Isabel=Moyle, 52.
John, 52, 53, 56, 57, 58, 109.
Margaret (Gerard), 52.
Margaret=Comberford, 52.
Margaret=Staunton, 52, 53, 56, 58.
Mary=Sta£ford, 132.
Matilda, 52, 57.
Maud (Arderne), 52, 57.
Maud=Perrers, 52.
Maud= Wolverston, 52.
Roger, 52.
Thomas, 52, 57, 85, 89.
Walter, 6.
William, 52.
=Babington, 136.
= Ferrers, 52.
= Savage, 52.
Stapleton, 21, 93.
Elizabeth (Moreton), 114.
Joyce=Hoord, 82.
Robert, 21.
Thomas, 114.
Starkey, Alice=Skrhnshire, 129.
Staunton, 37.
Anne, 56.
Anne=Smith, 53, 58.
Margery, 52.
Margery=Smith, 56.
Margery (Stanley), 52, 53, 56, 58.
Margery=Welshe, 38.
William, 52, 53, 56, 58.
Sterton, Richard, 28.
Stockley, 6.
Elizabeth=Salt, 6, 104.
Joan=Greswold, 104.
Margaret (Hewet), 6, 104.
Ralph, 6.
Thomas, 6, 104.
William, 6, 104.
Stone, Cassandra (Powler), 80.
John, 80.
=Bowyer, 54.
Stonilow, William, 72.
Story, Anne (Thickness), 139.
Strange, Margaret=Noel, 119.
Strelley, =Salway, 51.
Strethay, 24, 137, 137.
Anne, 138.
Anne (Clapton), 137.
Anne (Cooke), 138.
Anne (Curzon), 137.
Anne (Kinnersley), 137.
Edward, 137.
Elizabeth, 137.
Elizabeth (Hopkins), 137.
George, 138.
INDEX.
193
Strethay — continued.
John, 137, 138.
Julian (Wolseley), 137.
Mary, 138.
Philip, 6, 137, 138.
Richard, 138.
Rowland, 138.
Thomas, 137.
William, 24, 138.
Strongman, Anne=Salt, 6.
Thomas, 6.
Sutton, 23, 25, 155.
Benet, 23.
Catherine (Bassett), 49.
Dorothy=Wrottesley, 153.
Edmund, Lord Dudley, 153.
Edward, Lord Dudley, 148.
Elizabeth (Macclesfield), 111.
Elizabeth=Whorwood, 148.
Henry, 49.
John, Lord Dudley, 153.
Thomas, 25, 49.
William, 49.
Swettenham, Elizabeth=Thickness, 138.
Elizabeth=Tyrrell, 142.
Lawrence, 142.
Swinnerton, 23, 24, 30, 87.
Alice (Stanley), 52.
Alice=Gresley, 86, 87.
Cassandra (Giffard), 81, 82.
Edward, 10, 30.
Elizabeth=Fitzherbert, 74.
Elizabeth=Thirkell, 127.
Ellen=Littleton, 109.
Hugh, 10.
Huinfrey, 74, 81, 82, 109.
John, 24.
Robert, 23.
Roger, 86, 87.
Thomas, 52.
(Harcourt), 95.
Swinshed, =Skrhnshire, 129.
Swynfeild, Richard, 6.
Swynfen, Richard, 6.
Sydney, Agnes (Pakenham), 77.
William, 77.
Talbot, Dorothy=Skrimshire, 129.
Eleanor=Dudley, 129.
Elizabeth=Cholmeley, 62.
Elizabeth=Littleton, 109.
Frances (Giffard), 81, 82.
Gilbert, 36, 109, 129.
Gilbert, Lord, 62.
Humphrey, 129.
Jane=Bowes, 82.
John, 81, 82, 129.
Katherine (dau. of King of Por-
tugal), 62.
Margaret, 129.
Mary=Astley, 36.
Talbot — continued.
Walter, 129.
(Petre), 82.
=Skrimshire, 129.
Tamhorne, 6, 24.
Thomas, 24, 71.
Tansfield, Robert, 75.
Wilgefort (Fitzherbert), 75.
Taylour, Eleanor (Okeover), 122.
John, 122.
Matilda, 122.
Tetesworth alias Rudyerd, 126.
Thomas, 7.
Tewe, Thomas, 28.
Thickbrome, Humfrey, 6, 15, 20.
Thicknes, 138, 1 38.
Anne (Barber), 139.
Anne (Osbaldeston), 139.
Anne=Story, 139.
Catherme=Chetwin, 139.
Elizabeth, 139.
Elizabeth (Michell), 139.
Elizabeth (Swettenham), 138.
Elizabeth=Mollins, 139.
Ellen=Smith, 139.
George, 139,
Henry, 138.
Isabel (Mainwaring), 138.
James, 138.
John, 139.
Lawrence, 138.
Ralph, 10, 138, 139.
Richard, 138.
Robert, 138, 139.
Rowland, 138.
Susan, 139.
Thomas, 139.
Ursula=Garnett, 139.
William, 138.
(Ridgley), 138.
=Tardley, 154.
Thirkell, Elizabeth (Swinnerton), 127.
Ellen=Rugeley, 128.
James, 128.
Jane (Bagot), 128.
Jane=Adderley, 128.
Joan=Adderley, 33.
John, 33, 127.
Rose (Minours), 127.
Rowland, 127.
(Poole), 127.
Thornbury, Edward, 7, 15.
Thorpe, Elizabeth=Broughton, 61.
Throckmorton, Margaret (Whorwood),
148.
Robert, 82.
Thomas, 148.
Ursula=Giffard, 81, 82.
Tikhill, Joan (Dethick), 44.
Thomas, 44.
Walter, 44.
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THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Tilney, =Greenway, 92.
=Harcourt, 92.
Toll, Elizabeth (Moseley), 115.
Richall, 115.
Toly, 88.
Joan=Gastneys, 86, 88, 162.
John, 86, 88, 162.
Tommehorn, see Tamhorn.
Torbock, Richard, 130.
William, 130.
alias Smyth, Ralph, 10.
Touchet, 24.
Alice (Dryby), 49.
John, 24.
Robert, 49.
Trentham, 139, 139.
Catherine (Marshall), 140.
Catherine=Lane, 140.
Dorothy=Stanhope, 141.
Elizabeth (Corbet), 140.
Elizabeth=De Vere, 141.
Elizabeth=Hakluit, 140.
Francis, 141.
Jane (Sneyd), 141.
John, 140.
Joyce=Minours, 140.
Katherine (Sheldon), 141.
Margaret=Meverell, 140.
Mary (Ireland), 140.
Richard, 140.
Robert, 140.
Thomas, 7, 19, 140, 141.
William, 139.
(Hoord), 140.
(Horton), 139.
=Eox, 140.
=Hakluit, 140.
=Husee, 140.
-=Leighton, 140.
=Middleton, 140.
=Rogers, 140.
Trubshaw, =Bowyer, 54.
Trussell, Anne=John, Earl of Oxford,
108.
Elizabeth (Burley), 108.
John, 108.
Tunsted, Emma=Eoljambe, 78.
Turner, Joan=Cholmeley, 63.
Twyford, Jane=Ashenhurst, 35.
Tyes, 116.
Tyrrell, 141, 141.
Cassandra, 142.
Charles, 142.
Edward, 142.
Elizabeth (Bodeley), 141.
Elizabeth (Swetenham), 142.
Erancis, 142.
George, 141.
Humfrey, 111.
Joyce (Ingleton), 141.
Margaret (Aston), 142.
Tyrrell — continued.
Margery =Yorke, 1 12.
Mary, 142.
Mary (Cooke), 141.
Mary (Lea), 142.
Mary (Montague), 141.
Penelope, 142.
Thomas, 7, 142.
William, 141.
Ufford, 24.
Unwin, 142, 142.
Anne (Offeley), 143.
Anne=Badley, 143.
Custom (Gledenhurst) , 143.
Edward, 143.
Elizabeth (Chaterley), 142.
Elizabeth (Spencer), 143.
Ellen, 143.
John, 143.
Margaret (Brereton), 143.
Margery, 143.
Mary, 143.
Mary (Barnes), 143.
Mary (Vernon), 143.
Mary=Bourne, 143.
Ralph, 143.
Stephen, 143.
Thomas, 10, 143.
Ursula (Billett), 143.
William, 10, 142, 143.
(Caddy), 143.
(Jackson), 143.
TJvedale, Joyce=Whorwood, 149.
William, 149.
Venables, 53, 72.
Agnes=Colyar, 64.
Ellen=Knipersley, 54.
Joan=Berington, 54.
William, 54.
Verdon, 24, 144, 144.
Bertram, 144, 156.
Henry, 50.
John, 7l, 144.
Lecelina, 144.
Nicholas, 141.
Normanuus, 144.
Richard, 24.
Robert, 144.
Roheis, 144.
Theobald, Lord, 50.
Thomas, 144.
Vernon, Benet=Gresle3r, 85, 89.
Henry, 38, 85, 89.
Hugh, 59.
Isabel=Stanley, 52.
Margaret=Bagot, 40.
Mary=Aston, 38.
Mary=Unwin, 143.
Rirlkrd, 40, 52, 59.
INDEX.
195
Vernon — contin tied.
Robert, 143.
Widow, 18.
Villiers, Beatrix=Bagot, 39.
John, 39.
Vise, 144, 144.
Andrew, 145.
Anne (Brougkton), 60.
Anne=Milles, 145.
Catherine (Barker), 145.
Cicely=Jervis, 145.
Edmond, 145.
.Edward, 145.
Elizabeth=Clayton, 145.
Ellen, 145.
Humphrey, 145.
Isabel, 145.
Isabel (Fitton), 145.
James, 145.
Joan, 145.
John, 144, 145.
Lettice, 145.
Margery (Brougkton), 144.
Mary, 145.
Roger, 144.
Thomas, 60, 145.
Ursula=Forster, 145.
William, 10, 144, 145.
(Bough), 144.
(Howford), 144.
"Wake, Agnes (Humett), 99.
Baldwin, 99.
Hugh, 159.
Walcot, 25.
Waldeskeff, 72.
Walkden, Anne (Goodyer), 135.
Sampson, 10.
Thomas, 135J
Walkelate, John, 28.
"Walker, Catherine (Harpur), 97.
Dorothy (Fowler), 80.
Joan=Hawkes, 97.
Richard, 97.
Sampson, 10, 14, 80.
"Walsall, Catherine=Grobbere, 104,
105.
William, 104, 105.
Walsh, 89.
Margaret=Gresley, 86, 89.
Thomas, 86, 89.
Walsingham, Catkerine=Greslev, 85,
90.
Thomas, 85, 90.
Walter, Robert fitz, 156, 157.
Walters, 25.
Christopher, 25,
William, 25.
Ward, Eleanor=Giffard, 82.
Joan=Meynell, 44.
Robert, 44.
Wardesworth, (Rudyerd), 126.
Waring, 11, 25.
Nicholas, 25.
Thomas, 11.
Warner, George, 7.
Joan=Adderley, 33.
Robert, 33.
Warter, 25.
William, 25.
Warwick, 116.
Ambrose, Earl of, 148.
Richard Beauchamp, Earl of, 116.
Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of, 162.
Wastneys, 21, 85, 86.
Agatka, widow=St. Landa, 158.
Agnes, 158.
Alice, 160.
Alice (Acton), 157.
Ampkelis, 86, 157, 158, 159.
Ampkelis (Morley), 88.
Bertricia, 88.
Betrek, 86.
Constance, 86, 88, 161.
Edmond, 21, 156, 161.
Elizabeth. = Cornwall, 161.
Geoffrey. 157.
Hardolpk, 86, 88, 156.
Isabel (Hay), 86, 88, 161.
Isabel=Jortz, 162.
Joan, 160.
Joan (Brett), 86, 88, 161.
Joan (Toly), 86, 88, 162.
Joceus, 158.
Jokn, 86, 88, 89, 160, 161, 162.
Margaret, 86, 159.
Matthania (Colton), 158.
Philip, 86, 88, 158, 159, 160, 161.
Ravenhild, 86, 88.
Reginald, 161.
Robert, 86, 88, 157.
Roger, 159.
Stephen, 159, 160, 162.
Thomas, 86, 88, 89, 161, 162.
Tkomasin, 162.
Tkomasin=Greslev, 86, 89, 156.
William, 21, 71, 86, 88, 89, 157.
158, 159, 160, 161, 162.
Willielma, 161.
Waterkouse, Edward, 2.
Waterton, Jane=Everard, 70.
Rickard, 70.
Watton, =Macclesfield, 111.
Waynman, Anne=Fitzkerbert, 73, 75.
=Huddlestou, 53.
Wedgwood, 7.
Anne (Bowyer), 54.
Jokn, 7, 54.
Welles, 145, 145, 146.
Alice (Aston^, 145.
Anne (Fitzkerbert), 73, 75, 146.
Cecilia (Aston), 145.
196
THE VISITATION OP STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
Welles — continued.
Dorothy (Okeover), 122, 146.
DorothV=Duffield, 146.
Elizabeth, 146.
Humfrey, 122, 146.
Joan (Bonington), 145.
John, '73, 75, 122, 145, 146.
Katherine (Weston), 146.
Katherine=St. Andrew, 146.
Margaret=Croche, 146.
Mariam (Cockes), 146.
Mary=Chetwin, 146.
Richard, 122, 146.
Robert, 6, 146.
Thomas, 145.
Walter, 146.
Welles a?i'fl.sClerke,Joice=Grosvenor,90.
Joan=Dudley, 90.
John, 90.
Welsh, 37.
Elizabeth=Shirley, 38.
Ellen=Littleton, 38, 108.
Margery, 108.
Margery (Biron), 46.
Margery (Staunton), 38.
Thomas, 38, 46, 108.
Wentworth, Thomas, 76.
William, 76.
(Fitzwilliam), 76.
West, Agnes=Bartram, 43.
Westby, Elizabeth =Fitzherbert, 74.
John, 74.
Westcote, 4, 26.
Joan (Burley), 108.
Mary=Pitzherbert, 74.
Thomas, 108.
(Littleton), 108.
Westmorland, Ralph, Earl of, 116.
Ralph Neville, Earl of, 132.
Weston, 29.
James, 28, 29, 146.
Katherine=Welles, 146.
Richard, 4.
Richard, Lord, 29.
Symond, 29.
Weyer, William, 21.
Whetenhale, 103.
Whethill, Dorothy=Wrottesley, 153.
Richard, 153.
Whitby, Thomas, 28.
White, 122.
Anthony, 75.
Elizabeth (Fitzherbert), 75.
George, 75.
Henry, 82, 122.
John, 75.
]'l,ilippa=Giffard, S3.
Richard, 75.
Sihilla=Okeover, 122.
Whitehurst, John, 8, 15.
Whitgreave, 147, 147.
Whitgreave — continued.
Alice=Grosvenor, 91, 147.
Anne, 148.
Bridget=Astley, 147.
Dorothy (Noel), 118, 147.
Edward, 147, 148.
Elizabeth (Norton), 148.
Elizabeth=Bagnall, 147.
Elizabeth=Cohnan, 147.
Ellen=Babington, 147.
George, 147.
Henry, 148.
Humfrey, 4, 136, 147, 148.
Jane, 147.
Jane (Erdeswick), 147.
Joyce (Astley), 147.
Lucretia=Moseley, 115, 147.
Margaret, 147.
Margery (Stamford), 136, 147.
Mary, 148.
Mary (Nelson), 148.
Robert, 91, 136, 147, 148.
Thomas, 10, 115, 118, 147.
Walter, 147.
William, 148.
(Corbet), 136, 147.
(Egerton), 147.
Whitmore, Jaue=Whorwood, 151.
John, 14, 72.
Prudence (Noel), 119.
Roger, 119.
Thomas, 10.
Whittington, 6.
Mary=Littleton, 108.
Thomas, 6.
Whitwick, Humfrey, 16.
Walter, 28.
Whorwood, 14-8. 14S, 150,150, 151,151.
Anne (Cockes), 151.
Anne (Eield), 149.
Anne=Ambrose, Earl of Warwick,
148.
Anthony, 71, 149, 150.
Cassandra (Grey), 148.
Dorothy (Bassett), 149, 150.
Edward, 149, 150.
Eleanor=Smithe, 151.
Elizabeth, 150.
Elizabeth (Corbiu), 150.
Elizabeth (Sutton), 148.
Elizabeth=Hazelwood, 151 .
Emma, 149.
Prances (Chelsham), 149, 150.
Prancis, 151.
Gabriel, 149.
Geoffrey, 149.
Gerard, 149, 150.
Henry, 151.
Isabel (Gravenor), 1 49.
Jane, 149.
Jane (Whitmore), 151.
INDEX.
197
Whorwood — continued.
Jerome, 149, 150.
Joan (Rickthorne), 151 .
John, 148, 149, 150, 151 .
Joyce (Grey), 148.
Joyce (Uvedale), 149.
Joyce=Hollyinan, 151.
Littleton, 149.
Magdalen, 149.
Magdalen (Edwards), 149, 150.
Margaret (Brook), 148, 151.
Margaret (Dickenson), 149.
Margaret=Throckmorton, 148.
Margery=Sanson, 151.
Nicholas, 151.
Oliver, 149.
Owen, 149.
Philip, 151.
Eichard, 149, 150, 151.
Robert, 149, 150.
Thomas, 11, 18, 148, 149, 150, 151.
William, 11, 148, 149, 150, 151.
(Brook), 151.
(Corbin), 148.
(Field), 150.
(Jeloni), 149.
(Hochkis), 151.
William fitz Nigel, 86.
Willoughby, Catherine^ Astley, 36.
Dorothy (Paget), 123.
Dorothy=Fitzherbert, 73.
Henry, 73.
Lord, 36.
Thomas, 123.
Wilmot, Elizabeth (Yardley), 155.
Robert, 155.
Wilson, Anne (Harcourt), 96.
Benedict, 96.
Windsor, =Harcourt, 92.
=Purferey, 92.
AVingfield, Dorothy (Pitzherbert), 75.
John, 75.
Wiunesbury, 109.
Alice =Littletou, 109.
William, 109.
Winston, Jane (Broughton), 60.
Thomas, 60.
Winter, Catherine (Gresley), 85, 89.
Edward, 85, 89.
Elizabeth, widow, 129.
Withers, Anne (Stamford), 134.
Wolferston, 30.
Humfrey, 6, 19, 30.
Margaret (Everard), 70.
Margaret=Everard, 69.
Maud (Stanley), 52.
Sampson, 70.
Thomas, 52, 69.
Wolriche, Eve (Cokenage), 43.
John, 10, 14.
Roger, 43.
Wolseley, 10.
Anne=Coyney, 66.
Anthony, 66.
Cnssandra (Giffard), 83.
Erasmus, 4, 10, 17, 83.
Joyce (Salway), 51.
Julian=Strethay, 137.
Ralph, 51.
Wood, Anne=Brett, 55.
Isabella (Hill)=Littleton, 109.
Robert, 55.
Woodhall, Maud (Everard), 70.
Richard, 70.
Woodhouse, Nicholas, 27.
Woodshaw, Elizabeth (Leveson), 107.
Woodson, John, 45.
Margaret (Cokayne), 45.
Woodward, John, 8,15.
Wortley, Elizabeth (Pitzwilliam), 76.
Thomas, 76.
Wright, (Smith), 122.
Wrottesley, 24, 27, 152, 152.
Anne=Leveson, 107.
Dorothy (Sutton), 153.
Dorothy=Whethill, 153.
Edward, 153.
Elizabeth, 153.
Elizabeth (Astley), 36, 153.
Prances= Brook, 153.
Hugh, 24, 152, 153.
Isabel (Ardern), 152.
Isabel (Harcourt), 153.
Jane (Baron), 152.
Jane (Barrey), 152.
Joan (Bassett), 152.
John, 18, 36, 152, 153.
Margaret, 153.
Mary (Lea), 153.
Richard, 107, 153.
Thomas, 153.
Thomasin (Gresley), 152.
Walter, 11, 107, 152, 153.
(Harcourt), 95.
Wyrley, 25, 27, 153, 153.
Abraham, 154.
Anne, 154.
Anne (Harpur), 153.
Anne=Hogetts, 154.
Avery or Audrey= Moseley, 115,
154.
Bridget=Breton, 154.
Catherine, 154.
Claire (Sheldon), 154.
Cornelius, 25, 153, 154.
Dorothy, 154.
Dorothy (Harman), 154.
Dorothy=Comberford, 154.
Dorothy=Robsante, 154.
Edward, 154.
Elizabeth (Cave), 154.
Elizabeth=Skrimshire, 129, 154.
198
THE VISITATION OF STAFFORDSHIRE, A.D. 1583.
"VVyrley — continued.
Goodith (Peyto), 154.
Grace=Phillips, 154.
Humfrey, 154.
Joan (Avenon), 154.
John, 153, 154.
Judith=Lea, 154.
Margaret=Etou, 154.
Mark, 154.
Martha, 154.
Richard, 154.
Thomas, 6, 20, 115, 154.
William, 115, 129, 154.
Wyverston, Alice=Noel, 117.
Henry, 117.
Yardley, 154, 155.
Alice, 155.
Anne=Meynell, 155.
Elizabeth (Eyrkes), 155.
Elizabeth (Moreton), 155.
Elizabeth=Wilmot, 155.
Ellen=Bostock, 155.
Emilia (Calcott), 155.
Yardley — contin ued.
George, 155.
John, 154, 155.
Margaret (Yardley), 155.
Margaret=Broughton, 59.
Margaret= Yardley, 155.
Margery (Lawton), 155.
Oliver, 154, 155.
Ralph, 155.
Randoll, 155.
Thomas, 155.
William, 10, 155.
(Marbury), 154.
(Thicknes), 154.
Young, Elizabeth=Broughton, 59.
John, 10, 14, 59.
York, Margery (Tyrrell), 142.
Thomas, 142.
Widow=Harcourt, 91.
Zouche, 103, 105.
Elizabeth (Grey), 49.
Elizabeth=Bowett, 105.
John, 49, 105.
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ERRATA, ETC.
Page xii, note *, read antecessorum.
„ 7, note %, read/our mullets. These bearings were granted by Robert Cooke,
Chrenceux, to John Wedgwood, by patent dated 20 Nov. 1576.
„ 9, line 7. Although Sampson Erdeswick is here stated to have appeared and
entered his descent, I do not think any such descent was really entered in
the Visitation book. At all events no pedigree is to be found in the
presumed original nor in the Stukeley MS. Three years later (viz., in
1586), Glover, as "Mareschall to Norroy Kinge of Armes," compiled and
certified a long and elaborate pedigree of the Erdeswick family "ad
instantiam et rogatu Sampsonis Erdeswike, armigeri." The original
vellum roll, signed by Glover, was presented to the British Museum
Library in 1791 by Thomas Blore, of Derby, Attorney-at-Law (Add. MS.
5410). It measures several yards in length, and the arms are very nicely
emblazoned in colours. What appears to be an imperfect copy of this,
transcribed from an old vellum roll belonging to Colonel Butler-Bowdon,
is printed in Dr. Howard's "Miscellanea," vol. iii., p. 4. Most of the
(so-called) copies of the Visitation (Hatherton MS., and Harl. MSS. 1415,
1570, 6128, etc.) give an Erdeswick pedigree, but of a later date than the
Visitation.
16, James Barnesley must, I think, be an error ; for the then head of the family
was either William Barnesley or Thomas, his son. The latter recorded his
descent in the College of Arms in 1597, when the arms and crest of the
Barnesleys of Barnesley Hall, Worcestershire (from whom he claimed
descent), were allowed to him, with a crescent for difference. This
pedigree is given in Lord Hatherton's MS., and has been printed by Shaw
in his second volume, p. 209. But Shaw has, by a stupid and inexcusable
blunder, made Thomas Barnesley (who was aged 3 at Dugdale's Visitation
in 1663) the grandson of the aforesaid Thomas, whereas he was really his
great-great-grandson; being son of William (aged 44 in 1663), whose
father Thomas (ob. circa 1636) was son of William, the " son and heir " of
the Thomas of 1597. (Of. orig. Vis. in Coll. Arm.)
,, 19, for Ham read Ham.
„ 25, Waringe. For falcons heads read lapwing's.
„ 30, James. I have not seen any other authority for this crest of James.
That usually ascribed to the family is, Out of a mural coronet azure, a
demi-lion regardant or, collared of the first, holding between the paws an
escallop sable.
„ 62, for Henryke read Kenryke.
„ 173, Dudley. Bead also Joan (Welles alias Clerke), 90 ; and Thomas, 90.
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